COVER STORY
﷽ Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal has been on a fast-unto-death at Khanauri border to pressurise the government to fulfil its promises to the farming community
🌜 Outlook Magazine - 01 February 2025
Don’t Let This Farmer Die
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🐎 Farmers still have hopes from their leaders, but time is running out. The enemies, in the meanwhile, are sharpening their weapons
The despair and anger of protesting farmers draw attention to the deeper crisis within Punjab's one-sector economy.
✃ How the Centre’s draft National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing and Dallewal’s fast unto death for an MSP guarantee are pushing farmer leaders to put their house in order and come together
♈ Pagrhi Sambhal O’ Jatta was the original peasant movement in the pre-colonial period that has energised farmers’ protests even today
♌ The strain of sustaining a long protest is evident among farmers at Khanauri, but the sense of community remains strong
🍸 Jagjit Singh Dallewal has reinforced how a fast unto death can serve as a warning and an appeal to the public and the government
These images from the 2020-21 protest is a direct representation of the farmers' daily struggles and the resilience shown by them to not bow down in front of the regime
🎃 The current struggle of Punjab’s farmers is purely economic, but they are internally divided by decades-old factional politics
💃 While the recent death by suicide of a farmer has rendered the mood sombre at Shambhu border, the protests have picked momentum at the call of the unions
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♍ Farmers still have hopes from their leaders, but time is running out. The enemies, in the meanwhile, are sharpening their weapons
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The despair and anger of protesting farmers draw attention to the deeper crisis within Punjab's one-sector economy.
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🍃 How the Centre’s draft National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing and Dallewal’s fast unto death for an MSP guarantee are pushing farmer leaders to put their house in order and come together
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🏅 Pagrhi Sambhal O’ Jatta was the original peasant movement in the pre-colonial period that has energised farmers’ protests even today
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ꦺ The strain of sustaining a long protest is evident among farmers at Khanauri, but the sense of community remains strong
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🉐 Jagjit Singh Dallewal has reinforced how a fast unto death can serve as a warning and an appeal to the public and the government
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These images from the 2020-21 protest is a direct representation of the farmers' daily struggles and the resilience shown by them to not bow down in front of the regime
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ꦚ The current struggle of Punjab’s farmers is purely economic, but they are internally divided by decades-old factional politics
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ꦦ While the recent death by suicide of a farmer has rendered the mood sombre at Shambhu border, the protests have picked momentum at the call of the unions
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