1/6. Are those noisy Punjabis at Delhi’s gates “rich farmers?” The average monthly income of a farm household (avg. 5.24 persons) in that state was Rs. 18,059. Or a monthly per capita income of Rs. 3,450. (NSS 70th Round). Story link at end of thread.
#FarmersProtests
2/6. In Haryana: Farm household avg. 5.9 persons. Avg. monthly income Rs.14,434 or Rs. 2,450 per capita. That’s income from ALL sources: cultivation, livestock, wages/ salaries, non-farm businesses. Gee! Such wealth. What a ball these folks must be having.
#FarmersProtests
3/6. Sure they’re better off than farmers in, say, Gujarat: Farm household avg. 5.2 persons, Avg. monthly income Rs. 7,926 (or Rs. 1,524 per capita). All India average: farm household 5.1. Avg. monthly household income Rs. 6,426. Per capita barely Rs. 1,300
#FarmersProtests
4/6. Please remember that the government has pledged to double farmers’ incomes by 2022 – 12 months from now. A herculean task. That’s what makes the disruptive interference of the Rihannas and Thunbergs all the more annoying.
#FarmersProtests
5/6. It only affects Punjab-Haryana, say the experts. Funny. When last verified by a committee not appointed by the Supreme Court, both Punjab and Haryana were a part of the Indian Union. You’d think what happens there matters to all of us.
#FarmersProtests
6/6. Funny. Some of the great names trashing the “rich farmers” on media are people who make more money in a day than an entire farm household of 5 in Punjab or Haryana earns in a month.
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29 Dec 20
1/5. The Indian Jawan is a Kisan in uniform. And among the lakhs of peasants at Delhi’s gates is this group of 6 war heroes and veterans who have between them won over 50 medals in wars they’ve fought for India. (story link at end of thread)
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2/5. “When we fought the wars, our parents were on the land, farming. Now our children are at the borders, and we do the farming,” says Colonel Jaswinder Singh Garcha (retd.), in his seventies.
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3/5. ‘This is one of the world's biggest revolutions happening right now, at the gates of Delhi,’ says Brig. Gill (retd.), 72, soldier and farmer. ‘I fail to fathom why government is not repealing the laws, which it should have done already.’
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10 Dec 20
1/5. The farm laws exclude civil court jurisdiction and bar prosecution of officers of central and state governments, and also “any other person in respect of anything” if done “in good faith.” Hint: Any other person = corporations
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2/5. And ““No civil court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any suit or proceedings in respect of any matter…” etc., These laws curb the right to legal recourse of all citizens, not just farmers. They undermine democracy, not just agriculture
#Farmers #FarmerBill2020
3/5. These are among the most sweeping exclusions of a citizen’s right to legal recourse since the suspension of fundamental rights during the Emergency of 1975-77. Art. 32 of the Constitution guaranteeing the right to legal remedies, stands undermined
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27 Nov 20
१/५ शेतकरी दिल्लीत पोचू नयेत यासाठी काटेरी तारा, आडकाठ्या आणि सीमा सुरक्षा दळ? भले. तर ही आहे, सहकारी संघराज्य प्रणाली. का दिल्ली दरबारी शेतकऱ्यांचा उठाव थोपवण्यासाठी हरयाणाच्या सुभेदारांच्या संगनमतात सहकारी सरंजामशाही?
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२/५. दुष्ट बाजारसमित्यांपासून शेतकऱ्यांना ‘मुक्त’ करू पाहणारी तीन कृषी विधेयकं (कायदे नव्हे) आठवतायत? केंद्राने रेटलेली, माध्यमं, ‘तज्ज्ञ’ अर्थशास्त्र्यांनी वाहवा केलेली! हाय! तोच मुक्त शेतकरी आज (कधीच न) पोसणाऱ्याच्या मुळावर उठलाय.
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३/५. शासनाने तत्परतेने २९ कामगार कायदे केवळ चार सूचींमध्ये ‘सूचित’ केले. माध्यमं आणि तज्ज्ञांकडून परत वाहवा. आज तोच सक्षम कृतघ्न कामगार मुक्त शेतकऱ्यांच्या समर्थनात रस्त्यावर उतरलाय. संविधान दिनाच्या शुभेच्छा, प्रियहो.
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26 Nov 20
1/5. Barbed wire, Barricades and Border Security Force to stop farmers from reaching Delhi? Wow! There’s Cooperative Federalism for you. Or is it cooperative feudalism with the subedars of Haryana saving the Dilli Darbar from a peasant uprising?
#FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers
2/5. Remember the 3 Farm Bills (now laws) that were to ‘liberate’ farmers from the clutches of the evil APMC? Rammed through by the Centre, hailed by media and ‘expert’ economists. Damn! The liberated are biting the hands that never fed them.
#FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers #FarmBill
3/5. The government then quickly ‘codified’ 29 labour laws into four codes. More media and expert applause. But the ungrateful workers so empowered are on the streets today fully supporting the liberated farmers. Happy Constitution Day, all.
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28 Sep 20
1/5. Bhagat Singh. Today is the 113th birth anniversary of the man we celebrate as a martyr, political activist, thinker, revolutionary – and rightly so. Sadly, an element central to his identity – Bhagat Singh the journalist, remains largely unknown
#Bhagat_Singh
2/5. Bhagat Singh the journalist wrote in four languages, English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi. While underground, he learned some Bengali. He even understood a little Persian. All this - achieved by a young man hanged at age 23. Many of us began journalism at that age
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3/5. A lot of Bhagat Singh’s journalism appeared in Kirti, Pratap, Vir Arjun, Milap and Akali. Much that he wrote under pseudonyms is lost to us. At age 17, he translated the revolutionary Dan Breen’s book ‘My Fight for Irish Freedom’ from English into Hindi
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24 Sep 20
1/5. पंतप्रधान मोदी वारंवार सांगतायत अ) ते किमान हमीभाव संपुष्टात येऊ देणार नाहीत आणि ब) २०२२ पर्यंत शेतकऱ्यांचं उत्पन्न ते दुप्पट करतील. उत्तम. मग ही हमी देणारं ५ मुद्द्यांचं विधेयक ते का आणत नाहीत? आधीसारखा विरोध न होता ते विधेयक बिनविरोध पारित होईल.
#FarmBill2020
2/5. या विधेयकात - किमान हमीभावाची (स्वामीनाथन सूत्राप्रमाणे – ज्याचं वचन भाजपने २०१४ साली दिलंय) हमी असेल. कोणताही बडा व्यापारी, कंपनी किंवा ‘नव ग्राहक’ हमीभावाहून कमी किंमतीत शेतमाल उचलणार नाही. तसंच खरेदीची हमी असेल, जेणेकरून हमीभावाची थट्टा होणार नाही.
#FarmBill2020
3/5. आणि, हे विधेयक शेतकरी आणि शेतमजुरांवरचं कर्ज रद्द करेल. कर्जाचा बोजा असताना त्यांचं उत्पन्न २०२२ काय, २०३२ मध्येही दुप्पट होणं शक्य नाही. किमान हमीभाव व शेतकऱ्यांचं उत्पन्न दुप्पट करणं पंतप्रधानांचं स्वतःचं वचन असताना विरोध कोण करेल?
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