Over the past two months, around 500,000 farmers and agrarian workers
from different parts of India have descended upon New Delhi. They are
demanding a repeal of thethree farm laws
<https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-the-farm-bills-and-quandary/360640>recently
passed by India’s BJP-led rightwing government. The protests first
erupted in August of last year, when farmers and workers in Punjab
started occupying and shutting down numerousrailway stations and toll
plazas
<https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/protesters-up-ante-corporates-feel-heat-152473>on
state highways, along with several corporate-ownedthermal plants, petrol
pumps, and malls
<https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/rail-blockades-left-with-2-days-coal-punjab-stares-at-severe-power-outages-153859>.
Then, a few months later, these protests scaled up, and several
thousands of these farmers and workers started streaming towards the
national capital. In late November, after days of pitched battles with
different police and paramilitary forces, they managed to successfully
occupy the highways linking the national capital to the northern states.
Led by 32 farmers’ and workers’ unions, these historic occupations have
quickly swelled into 10-mile-long cavalcades of 24/7 community kitchens
and open libraries, film screenings and political meetings^1
<https://spectrejournal.com/the-postcolonial-autumn/void(0)> .
https://spectrejournal.com/the-postcolonial-autumn/
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