A convoy of at least 10,000 women protesters making its way towards Delhi from 14 districts across Punjab is being led by a woman farmer herself. Harinder Bindu, from Bhatinda, has been a farmer for no fewer than 30 years.
All was well until the Centre brought three highly controversial farm laws, against which farmers from around the country and especially in Bindu’s home state of Punjab have been protesting for the past couple of months.
On November 26, thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, who had begun a ‘Delhi chalo’ movement to voice their concerns at the National Capital, met with water cannon, teargas shells, barbed wire and barricades.
This “attack” on farmers, she says, feels personal to her.
— source thewire.in | 28/Nov/2020