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While the Centre plans its next move to negotiate with the protesting farmers, BJP leaders in Punjab have been increasingly breaking their silence on the matter, voicing their support and making attempts to bring the farmers’ concerns to the Union government’s attention.
The renewed farmers’ protest demanding a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) has made political parties alter their strategies, especially with the Lok Sabha elections just round the corner.
A week, they say, is a long time in politics. The beleaguered Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) might agree.
AS DAYS pass by and the renewed farmers’ protest across Punjab and Haryana continue, Sunil Jakhar’s face is conspicuous by its absence at the barricades that the BJP-led Haryana government has erected to prevent Punjab farmers from crossing over in their march towards Delhi.
As thePunjab farmer groups again hit the roads in a bid to march to Delhi to hold protests over their various demands, running into massive security force contingents – who have put up multi-layer barricades and used lathicharge and teargas shells to stop them – two new farmer leaders have come under spotlight: Sarwan Singh Pandher, the coordinator of the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) and the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), and Jagjit Singh Dallewal, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (non-political) convener.
Although the break-up of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the BJP in 2020 amid the farm law protests was acrimonious, whispers of a reconciliation between the BJP and its oldest NDA ally have been floating since the Union government repealed the three contentious farm laws in 2021.
FARMER leader Darshan Pal finds himself in a peculiar pickle. On Wednesday, a press release was issued in the name of the CPI (Maoist) saying it was dismissing “Comrade Joseph (Darshan Pal)” for “anti-party factional activities” after his Naxal “links” were exposed, along with another member. Apart from the fact that the CPI (Maoist) is itself the alleged spearhead of Naxalism, and banned by the government, the Darshan Pal it was referring to was quickly assumed to be the Darshan Pal involved in the year-long agitation against the Central farm laws.