Sangh Parivar brands Annadata who provided food sovereignty as Khalistanis, thereby implying the struggle continues

 

Sangh Parivar revives Khalistan narrative to confront Punjab-led farmers struggle for survival

Jagtar Singh

Ground Zero

 

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The farmers in several states have taken to streets against the three farm acts adopted by the Narendra Modi government at the time when the world is grappling with Covid. Leading this protest are the farmers of Punjab.

Ironically, the people -Annadata- who provided the much needed food sovereignty to India are being branded as the Khalistanis by the people from the Hindutva brigade, thereby repeating the same blunder as the Congress at one time.

The farmers perceive these legislations as threat to their very survival that would push them out of their lands which over time would be taken over by the corporates.

The Bihar government abolished the mandis years back and allowed free play of market forces. Now produce from Bihar is sold in Punjab where the farmers get assured MSP at least for wheat and paddy. How come that the Modi government decided to implement the failed Bihar model at the national level?

Thousands of farmers -men, women and children- have marched to Delhi to force the Modi government to drop these acts and provide constitutional guarantee for MSP.

Farmers in Punjab don’t get MSP on rest of the crops. What stops the corporates from buying maize at higher prices, at least close to the MSP? This is a simple question that the Modi government needs to answer. If the farmers are being denied even the MSP for rest of the crops in Punjab, how is it possible that they would get higher prices under the free market structure?

This struggle triggered in Punjab is multi-dimensional. It is for the first time that the participation by the women is massive. Such scenes have never been witnessed during earlier struggles. So is the case with youth who had been defamed as druggists. Entire Punjab was seen to be on the march.

The farmers in Punjab are predominantly Sikhs barring some pockets in Hoshiarpur where lands are owned by Rajputs too. It is the same people who have been participating in almost every struggle beginning with Pagri Sambah Jatta  in 1907. The Sangh Parivar must known that these very people dominated the Ghadr Party that was the first political formation to raise the slogan of complete freedom in India in 1913, years ahead of the Congress and made the maximum sacrifices for this cause.

They were the supporters of the Akali Dal for years before the present leadership distanced from this support base and is now trying to re-connect after breaking alliance with the BJP, the political wing of the Sangh Parivar that is attacking the struggling farmers as Khalistanis.

This struggle is multidimensional.

It is the first such massive mobilization against the Narendra Modi government in the economic domain.

There has been no planned agitation against the disastrous effects of demonetization, the GST and the most recent, the unplanned lockdown to contain Covid. All three measures have hit the economy hard.

The farmers can become nucleus of the mobilization on economic issues against the Modi government and its divisive agenda.

The nefarious design of the RSS to label this struggle as of Khalistanis is already getting exposed.

 

PS: The Sangh Parivar people know it too well that memorial stands in the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) complex that commemorates Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his associates who were killed during army attack code-named Operation Bluestar in June 1984. If his memorial is there, what is the problem with his posters? Memorials are for martyrs and this memorial is known as Martyrs Memorial.