[WSMDiscuss] Farmers protests in India : ‘Chakka Jam’ : 3-hr road blockade mainly in 2 states, farm leaders fan out to keep peace / BUT ALSO : ‘ ‘They follow us everywhere’ : BJP leaders face farmers’ anger in Punjab, Haryana’

[Jai Sen]

Sunday, February 7, 2021

India in movement…, Farmers in movement, Peasants in movement…, Resistance in movement…, Rights in movement…, Politics in movement… Democracy in movement…, History in movement…, Herstory in movement…

[On the farmers’ protests in India, following up on recent posts – and always keeping an eye on the fact that this is now perhaps not only the largest, sustained independent popular movement in India since it gained independence in 1947, and not only that it is about fundamental issues in agrarian relations - impacting on the lives and futures of hundreds of millions of people -, but that it is also about the most fundamental, structural issues in society as a whole, of justice and freedoms, and democracy.

[Also important to notice and watch is that the mass popularity of the farmers’ movement – in heavily populated states that have huge populations involved in agriculture - is of course also playing itself out in terms of local and state-level electoral politics; AND the political parties are now on the back foot.  Especially for those interested in a closer understanding of what is happening, see the second article, further on below :

‘ ‘They follow us everywhere’ : BJP leaders face farmers’ anger in Punjab, Haryana’

“The January 26 episode by anti-social elements who infiltrated our groups caused great harm to us,” said [Buta Singh Burjgill, president of BKU (Dakaunda), one of the key protesting unions]. “So we had given repeated instructions to youngsters who were to bring people in tractor-trolleys to dharna sites to drive slowly and remain polite.”

That’s why the jam for was just three hours, Dhaner added. “So that people can reach the sites by noon and return home before sunset. The idea was to show our strength and to be heard.”

Said Burjgill: “We told all speakers that no one should make any personal attacks on any leader. Our protest is against farm laws…we directed speakers not to give any provocative speeches. ”

“The chakka jam took place peacefully without any disturbance. This protest will continue if the government doesn’t pay heed to our demands,” said farm leader Darshan Pal at a press conference.

The road blockade at 250 sites across Haryana touched several districts including Sonipat, Jhajjar, Rohtak, Kaithal, Fatehabad, Panipat, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Sirsa, Mahendragarh, Ambala, Hisar, Jind and Palwal.

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Khap leader Tek Ram Kandela, seen as a BJP supporter, told the Mahapanchayat that the BJP was to blame for the Red Fort incident. “I am a farmer first,” he explains to The Sunday Express. “Then the member of a party.”

‘Chakka Jam’ : 3-hr road blockade mainly in 2 states, farm leaders fan out to keep peace

In the two states, though, the blockade disrupted traffic on many highways even as farmer unions took steps to ensure there was no repeat of the Republic Day violence when a section of the protests spiralled out of control

Raakhi Jagga <https://indianexpress.com/profile/author/raakhi-jagga/>, Varinder Bhatia <https://indianexpress.com/profile/author/varinder-bhatia/>
Chandigarh, Ludhiana | Updated: February 7, 2021 7:20:47 am IST

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/chakka-jam-farmers-protest-7177840/ <https://indianexpress.com/article/india/chakka-jam-farmers-protest-7177840/>


The Chakka Jam protesters at Ladowal Toll on NH 1 in Ludhiana. (Express Photos by Gurmeet Singh)


For three hours, from 12 noon to 3 pm Saturday, farmers protesting against the Centre’s new farm laws blocked several roads mainly across Punjab and Haryana Saturday.

Elsewhere, the call for a nationwide “chakka jam <https://indianexpress.com/article/india/chakka-jam-farmers-protest-live-updates-7176830/>,” evoked scattered response.

In the two states, though, the blockade disrupted traffic on many highways even as farmer unions took steps to ensure there was no repeat of the Republic Day violence <https://indianexpress.com/article/india/january-26-red-fort-violence-delhi-police-serves-notices-to-9-people-in-baghpat-7177782/> when a section of the protests spiralled out of control.

 

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Farmers’ nationwide Chakka Jam

On most stretches, traffic resumed after 3.30 pm; ambulances and essential service vehicles were allowed to pass through; several leaders criss-crossed the state and underlined to protesters the need to keep the peace; the blockade wasn’t allowed to extend beyond the stipulated 3 pm.
The government, too, was on alert. Right through the day, all district police chiefs were in the field. Ahead of the chakka jam, the Centre, on February 5 midnight, snapped Internet services at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur, all the three sit-in protest sites until 11.59 pm February 6.

An order issued by Ministry of Home Affairs said it was being done “in the interest of maintaining public safety and averting public emergency.”

Also Read |Rakesh Tikait, Balbir Singh Rajewal interview: ‘Govt failing us… We plan to stay here at least till Oct 2’ <https://indianexpress.com/article/india/rakesh-tikait-interview-farmers-protest-7176659/>
After the January 26 violence, the Centre had suspended Internet in these areas through a series of orders first between January 26 and January 27, and then between January 29 and February 2.



Clearly, the shadow of January 26 hung over the protests today. Speaking to The Indian Express <https://indianexpress.com/>, Vicky Jainpuri of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), whose members veered off the designated route on R-Day, said: “We told our youngsters, ‘you have already seen the consequences of the Red Fort incident. No one should misbehave again’. Peace is our strength.”

Buta Singh Burjgill, president of BKU (Dakaunda), one of the key protesting unions, said that he and his senior vice-president Manjit Dhaner repeatedly underlined this caution.

“The January 26 episode by anti-social elements who infiltrated our groups caused great harm to us,” said Burjgill. “So we had given repeated instructions to youngsters who were to bring people in tractor-trolleys to dharna sites to drive slowly and remain polite.”

In Photos |Here's how the three-hour 'Chakka Jam' unfolded <https://indianexpress.com/photos/india-news/farmers-protest-heres-how-the-three-hour-chakka-jam-unfolded-across-the-country-7177715/>
That’s why the jam for was just three hours, Dhaner added. “So that people can reach the sites by noon and return home before sunset. The idea was to show our strength and to be heard.”

Said Burjgill: “We told all speakers that no one should make any personal attacks on any leader. Our protest is against farm laws…we directed speakers not to give any provocative speeches. ”

“The chakka jam took place peacefully without any disturbance. This protest will continue if the government doesn’t pay heed to our demands,” said farm leader Darshan Pal at a press conference.

The road blockade at 250 sites across Haryana touched several districts including Sonipat, Jhajjar, Rohtak, Kaithal, Fatehabad, Panipat, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Sirsa, Mahendragarh, Ambala, Hisar, Jind and Palwal.

Villagers, farmers and supporters carrying Kisan Ekta flags and banners gathered at key intersections and toll booths on highways.

Raising slogans against the Centre, they parked their tractors or squatted on the road. Among the highways affected were Chandigarh <https://indianexpress.com/elections/chandigarh-lok-sabha-election-results/>-Zirakpur, Amritsar-Pathankot, Tarn Taran-Kapurthala, Ferozepur-Fazilka, Bathinda-Chandigarh, Ludhiana-Jalandhar, Panchkula-Pinjore and the Ambala-Chandigarh stretches.

Said Haryana’s Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Rajiv Arora: “It was only a three-hour chakka jam and everything went off peacefully. There was no incident of any law and order disruption or any ambulance or any other essential services vehicles getting stuck or blocked by the farmers at any place”.

In Punjab, the chakka jam disrupted traffic at more than 350 places. Protests were organised by 32 farmer unions and BKU Ugrahan and KMSC.

Said Sukhdev Singh Kokri Kalan, general secretary of BKU Ugrahan: “Weare always peaceful but once bitten is twice shy. Hence, our standard instructions to everyone were not to do any personal attacks on anyone except Deep Sidhu who is a BJP <https://indianexpress.com/about/bjp/>-RSS man and who tried to defame peaceful farmers.”

In Punjab, women participated in large numbers at almost all dharna spots with children as well — on the Moonak-Tohana highway, women outnumbered men.

In Barnala and Ludhiana, many residents joined in with their children.

In parallel, more than 100 dharnas have been on across Punjab for more than 100 days.

On Friday, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait had declared that the protest on Delhi’s outskirts would continue till October 2. He said that he had received “inputs” that some “miscreants” would try to “disrupt peace” and so had called off the “chakka jam” in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.


‘They follow us everywhere’ : BJP leaders face farmers’ anger in Punjab, Haryana

Ahead of civic polls in Punjab, protests are on outside BJP homes, partymen are scared to visit villages, several have quit, while others have removed BJP flags from vehicles. As the party finds itself crippled in Punjab and Haryana, The Indian Express take the measure of the farmer anger facing the BJP — with other parties watching warily

Anju Agnihotri Chaba <https://indianexpress.com/profile/author/anju-agnihotri-chaba/>, Raakhi Jagga <https://indianexpress.com/profile/author/raakhi-jagga/>, and Sukhbir Siwach <https://indianexpress.com/profile/author/sukhbir-siwach/>
Jalandhar, Jind, Ludhiana | Updated: February 7, 2021 1:13:48 pm IST

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/punjab-civic-polls-farmers-protest-bjp-7177877/ <https://indianexpress.com/article/india/punjab-civic-polls-farmers-protest-bjp-7177877/>


During the 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' [‘Great Farmers’ council’] in Jind district of the state of Haryana (Express photo by Jasbir Malhi)

It’s seven days to the Punjab civic polls, and senior BJP <https://indianexpress.com/about/bjp/> Jalandhar leader Ramesh Sharma is in a quandary.[1] <applewebdata://739D7B01-DD20-4E3B-8509-9619E98D2EA7#_ftn1> “They follow us everywhere,” he says.

[1] <applewebdata://739D7B01-DD20-4E3B-8509-9619E98D2EA7#_ftnref1> The BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) is the ruling party in the central government in India, which has announced the 'agrarian reform’ laws - js.

In 2015, the then ruling Akali-Dal BJP combine had swept the civic polls, with the BJP outperforming its senior partner. This time, the BJP has not been able to find candidates for two-thirds of the seats, nor to campaign in the rest. As the protesters at Delhi’s borders press on, Punjab BJP leaders are nervously watching the “pakka dharnas” outside homes of more than 30 of them — unceasing for four months, continuing day and night, drawing people from up to 40 km away, organised by farm unions, under tents that can hold 200 people. The banners at the sites demand that the “black” farm laws be repealed, ask why farmers are being called terrorists, and exhort: ‘Aao saare Dilli chaliye (Let’s all go to Delhi)’.

The BJP has hardly stirred out for campaigning, for fear of protesters surrounding their venues. Many BJP leaders have quit — over 20 of them in January alone — including the only Sikh face in the party’s core committee in the state, Malwinder Singh Kang. Partymen have removed the BJP flag from their vehicles, and check farmers’ protest plans before leaving homes, says a senior BJP leader.

Its plan for Tiranga Yatras ['tricolour rallies' - the colours of the Indian flag] across Punjab to highlight the January 26 violence in Delhi — which briefly gave the government hope of putting the farm leaders on the backfoot — stands scuppered.
“Protesters gherao [surround] us whenever they see us,” says Sharma, former BJP district president of Jalandhar and in-charge of the civic elections at Sunam in district Sangrur, blaming the Congress. In Sunam itself, pakka dharnas [sit-down strikes] are on outside the residences of BJP district president (rural) Rishipal Khera and party state executive member Vinod Gupta.

If BJP is ‘shameless enough to hold polls’ as farmers sit at Delhi borders, they will ensure BJP stays confined at home, protesters in Punjab say.
To be held on February 14, the civic polls to 2,302 seats in eight municipal corporations and 109 municipal councils/nagar panchayats will be the first reflection of the anger against the BJP over the new farm laws. Long-time ally Akali Dal is not around to fend it off, having split from the BJP over the laws. Moreover, the Akali Dal too is feeling the heat, despite its attempts to distance itself from the laws. People are also angry with the ruling Congress for going ahead with the polls when farmers are away protesting. The Aam Aadmi Party <https://indianexpress.com/about/aam-aadmi-party/>, the main opposition party in Punjab, carries little punch following desertions.

Among senior BJP leaders, Punjab state president Ashwani Sharma has been facing protests since October (he has truncated public appearances now). Harjit Singh Grewal, the biggest Sikh face in the Punjab BJP after Kang quit, who is part of the party panel talking to farmers, is facing a “social boycott” since mid-December after he called farmers “urban Naxals”.

Says a Dhanaula villager, Mohinder Singh, “No one will take Grewal’s village land on contract for farming. We challenge him to contest an election even to the Municipal Council.”

Harjeet Singh Grewal Interview: |‘A number of unions don’t want a solution… Reason is they are forcibly collecting funds’ <https://indianexpress.com/article/india/farmer-protests-bjp-working-committee-member-harjeet-singh-grewal-interview-7178049/>
On January 18, on a call by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, that is spearheading the farmers’ protest at Delhi borders, mega rallies were held at Dhanaula village, as well as the Kathera village in Fazilka of Surjit Kumar Jyani, the chairman of the eight-member BJP panel talking to farmers.

Grewal and Jyani have spent most of their time since November 28 in Delhi, after they were summoned by Home Minister Amit Shah to coordinate with the unions. On January 5, they met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after which Jyani called the farmer agitation “leaderless” and said Modi had asked for one name whom they all trusted.

READ |‘Ready to talk but need conducive environment’ <https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/farmers-protest-ready-to-talk-but-need-conducive-environment-7177842/>

In Rampura Phul area of Bathinda, a pakka dharna outside the factory of Makhan Jindal, a BJP state executive committee member, on since mid-October, was lifted on January 10 only after Jindal resigned from the party.

Kang tells The Sunday Express, “I quit when I saw the party was not serious about the issue. In the core committee meetings, the BJP leaders were not concerned. They were not even aware how many farmer unions were there in Punjab, what was their background.”

At Tej Enclave in Patiala, Jaswinder Singh, the block president of the BKU (Ugrahan), tells protesters assembled outside senior BJP leader Yogesh Khatri’s home that since the party is “shameless enough to contest the civic polls when making farmers sit out in the cold near Delhi”, “it’s our duty to ensure its leaders too remain at home by defeating them”.

Around 240 km away, Parkash Singh of the Kirti Kisan Union, tells protesters at Amritsar’s Canadi Avenue, outside the house of Rajya Sabha MP Shwait Malik, that the government was part of the “larger conspiracy” behind the Red Fort incident to discredit the farmers.

Kanwar Pal Gujjar Interview: |‘I blame China… 100%’ <https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kanwar-pal-gujjar-interview-farmer-protests-haryana-7178068/>
Parkash has been coming to the dharna daily for four months, from his village Thothian, around 40 km away. Jaswinder has been present at the site for 45 days despite a fractured arm. The locals have donated beddings and other essentials. Gurdwaras supply food. Even some BJP activists are serving meals on the side, the protesters say.

At Yogesh Khatri’s house in Patiala, the pakka dharna began around a fortnight ago. “We have been able to get only 11 candidates against 21 seats in the Samana Municipal Council and 10 against 17 seats in the Nabha council. At several places, our leaders are not contesting on party symbol,” Khatri says.

Careful not to provoke the farmers, he adds, “They have all the right to protest but they are getting too personal.”

Among the BJP leaders contesting as an Independent is Bathinda BJP chief Vinod Binta. He says he had no choice; “protesters are not allowing us to hold election meetings”.

The BJP’s attempts at reconciliation have failed. Says Harjit Singh Jitha of the Punjab Kisan Sangharsh Committee, “Shwait Malik met us once. But our demand is that the laws be cancelled… On that, he was helpless.”

READ |Rakesh Tikait ups the ante, farm leader says his UP call hasty <https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/tikait-ups-the-ante-farm-leader-says-his-up-call-hasty-7177836/>

Protesters have also vented anger on the Akali Dal, with slogans forcing its chief Sukhbir Badal to abandon a speech on farm laws at the Fatehgarh Sahib gurdwara on December 28. He had to be escorted out via the back gate.
Mystery surrounds the February 3 attack on Sukhbir’s vehicle in his constituency Fazilka, while he was accompanying a party candidate for filing of nomination for the civic polls. While the party blamed the Congress, another FIR names the Akali Dal’s own men.

Sukhbir and wife Harsimrat Badal repeatedly stress that they were the only NDA partners to have opposed the farm laws, and that they gave up a ministerial post and quit the alliance on the issue. Sukhbir told The Sunday Express he had warned the BJP not to go ahead with the farm laws “not once, but many times”. Denying that the farmer anger left them with no choice, the Akali leader says, “We are a 100-year-old party, we do not work under compulsions. We represent farmers and it is our duty to work for their welfare.”

The Congress, led by an aggressive Amarinder Singh, sees a chance to win back the Hindu vote that shifted to the BJP in Punjab, between the 2017 Assembly and 2019 Lok Sabha polls. With the BJP blaming the Congress for the protests, Punjab PCC chief Sunil Jakhar says farmers should give a befitting reply to the BJP “politically” and “democratically”. Defending the decision to hold the civic polls, Jakhar says, “Otherwise the BJP would have targeted the state saying polls were postponed due to law and order problems… The BJP has been calling farmers Khalistanis and Maoists. It would have exploited the situation. We do not want to give the Centre a chance to make a J&K in Punjab.”

In private, BJP leaders claim the Congress’s hopes of a big win are misplaced, contending that BJP leaders contesting as Independents are its own men. They also claim urban voters are with the party, especially in Hoshiarpur, Pathankot, Abohar and Bathinda districts.

Among those keeping a close vigil outside BJP homes, especially after the January 26 violence, is the police. But ACP, North Amritsar, Sarabjit Singh doesn’t expect a repeat. “The farmers have not indulged in any violence in the past four months,” he says.

READ |2 Punjab unions suspended from united front of 32 unions, barred from stage <https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/2-punjab-unions-suspended-from-united-front-of-32-unions-barred-from-stage-7177804/>

Haryana: ‘Watching who will be first to move out of home’

Sitting at his Chandigarh <https://indianexpress.com/elections/chandigarh-lok-sabha-election-results/> residence, a Haryana minister says it is a waiting game. “We are watching who will be the first to move out of home.”

Ever since protesting farmers held off 1,500 policemen, armed with teargas, to ensure Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s helicopter could not land in Karnal on January 10, the BJP’s plans of holding public meetings in support of the farm laws first went out of the window. Now, as anger mounts owing to the January 26 violence, party leaders are wary of leaving home, especially in districts where farmer agitation is the strongest.

It’s not just the ruling BJP that has been hemmed in. In a worse situation is its partner JJP and Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala <https://indianexpress.com/about/dushyant-chautala/> — whose political relevance draws on great-grandfather Devi Lal Chautala’s legacy as one of India’s tallest farmer leaders. The farmers have announced they won’t allow any public meetings of BJP-JJP leaders.

The CM has had his Kaimla venue vandalised and his cavalcade forced back with black flags in Ambala; Chautala has had a temporary helipad in his constituency Jind uprooted to thwart his arrival; minister Kamlesh Dhanda has had her cavalcade chased in Kaithal; the BJP has had to cancel training sessions and a protest on the Satlej-Yamuna Link issue in Fatehabad as farmers called it a bid to divide them along Punjab and Haryana lines. Outside many villages, boards bar entry of BJP and JJP leaders.

Says Raj Kumar, a farmer from Jind district, “BJP, JJP leaders can come out only if they hide their identity, wearing masks.”

Former state BJP president Subhash Barala admits farmers are gripped with “fear”. But adds, “It has been nursed in their minds.”

Among the BJP leaders who have faced the brunt of the ire is Haryana Education Minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar. BKU leader Jasbir Singh Mamumajra says Gujjar “spoke too much against agitating farmers”.

READ |Farm laws not acceptable, govt should come up with new proposal: Samyukta Kisan Morcha <https://indianexpress.com/article/india/samyukta-kisan-morcha-farmers-protest-chakka-jam-farm-laws-7177733/>


Chakka jam at Himalayan Expressway ChandiMandir toll plaza during farmer’s protest on Saturday. (Express Photo by Jaipal Singh)


Gujjar claims the protests on their own don’t affect him. “They are targeting me as I have been in favour of the laws. I don’t have a problem with black flags… How will democracy survive if there is no opposition? But opposition should be in a certain manner.”

BJP sources say they are counting on the fact that the next polls are in 2024, by when the farmer protests may be old news. However, the JJP can hardly bank on that alone. The other branch of Devi Lal’s family, represented by the INLD, scored a point recently when its lone MLA, Abhay Chautala, resigned in support of the farmers. With Dushyant having announced earlier that he would be “the first to resign” if he couldn’t get every farmer their MSP, Abhay says, “Those who used to talk of resigning citing the principles of Chaudhary Devi Lal are now forced to remain at home under security cover.”


Activists of various organisatins block the Jammu-Pathankot highway in support of farmers’ protest against new farm laws, in Jammu, Saturday, Feb. 6. 2021. (PTI Photo)

Dushyant’s younger brother Digvijay, fielding questions for the JJP on the farm laws, has tried to contain the damage. On January 29, after Uttar Pradesh BKU leader Rakesh Tikait’s crying video from Delhi’s Ghazipur border spurred a fresh round of protests, Digvijay said, “Rakesh Tikait is son of the country’s great leader Baba Mahender Tikait. It is totally wrong to call him anti-national.”

While the Congress is hoping to regain lost ground in the state on the back of the farmer agitation, for now farmer leaders are keeping all parties out. Senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala faced hooting when he went to a protest venue in Kaithal district on December 8; while a video also went viral purportedly showing hooting for former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda at Delhi’s Tikri border. Son and MP Deepender Hooda denied this, adding, “This is a non-political agitation. The farmer is its captain and hero.”

Haryana farmer leaders claim inspiration from their Punjab counterparts, especially after the Red Fort violence. “It was a trap to puncture the agitation, but people soon realised what it was about,” says Balraj Goyat, 50, who attended the huge Kisan Mahapanchayat held in Jind on February 3.

Khap [Traditional village council] leader Tek Ram Kandela, seen as a BJP supporter, told the Mahapanchayat that the BJP was to blame for the Red Fort incident. “I am a farmer first,” he explains to The Sunday Express. “Then the member of a party.”



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