Five months ago, Bhagwandas suffered a paralytic attack in the left side of his body and has been feeling the same sort of stiffness in his right hand as well.
The idea of the New Peace Process is to not just document the human rights violations and ensure that the victims are formally recognised, but also to eventually aid the government in providing reparations to the people.
Jimmy Tandel's father was supposed to be with his family in April last year. Gajanand Tandel started work on the ship 'Anastasia' in July 2019 as an able seaman.
During this ‘forced’ isolation, Gaurav realised that nearly 1500 other sailors also stranded like them in Chinese waters on 74 other ships. Anxiety and depression are building up among the sailors who are desperate to return home.
One thing that hasn’t changed in Jammu and Kashmir, as many political observers have pointed out, is the trend of continued polarisation, with BJP dominating in Hindu areas and regional parties dominating in Muslim majority areas.
Maira said time has come to together build a larger democratic movement, to build a fairer economy, in which farmers will get fairer prices and Dalits are more fairly included.
Farmer activist 'Kakkaji' said that there are 800 tractors that started from various parts of Madhya Pradesh, and are parked near Palwal where they were stopped 20 days ago. We are still right there. The government is scared which is why it is detaining farmer leaders everywhere in the country from Gujarat to Uttar Pradesh, he added.
Former MP and Raju Shetti said that anti-national forces will not hesitate to exploit any opportunity they get and the country will suffer a huge toll if the union government does not handle the situation delicately.
The three farm acts, against which farmers have been protesting for the past fortnight, could make the situation worse as it endangers the entire procurement mechanism, and hence, the PDS itself.
Kavitha Kuruganti is the national convener of Kisan Swaraj Gathbandhan- a movement to ensure corporate-influence free and environmentally sustainable farming.
The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh also demanded that the government set up special agri courts to hear matters of dispute between farmers and private buyers instead of the current provision which stipulates that such disputes be directed to the local SDM.
Mohini Mohan Mishra, national secretary of the RSS-affiliated Bhartiya Kisan Sangh, said a separate legislation like the GST is required for both the Centre and the states to ensure that farmers get their dues.
MP MLA Dr Sunilam said if the government at any point decides to use force against farmers, it could lead to a situation that the government may not be able to control.
Since the abrogation of articles 370 and 35A, after which, many businesses wound up, a lot of Kashmiri Pandits lost their jobs. The COVD-19 pandemic worsened the crisis.
While most of the clashes between the administration and the farmers were reported from areas around Haryana and Punjab, few disputed the claim that the protests were confined to just these two states alone.