On Tuesday, thousands of farmers from across Punjab gathered in Barnala district to oppose the recent trade deal between India and the United States. They also stood in solidarity with Iran, and took a stand against the Israel-US military aggression.
“Both the US-Israel war on Iran and the trade deal are anti-farmer,” Jagmohan Singh, general secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Union Dakaunda, who attended the protest, told Scroll.
The farmer union is a part of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a coalition of different farmers’ organisations that had called for a protest on March 7 against the “war unleashed on Iran by US and Israel … and also against the Indo-US interim agreement framework on free trade.”
The collective, in its statement, also criticised “Prime Minister Modi’s Israel visit just two days before the attack on Iran, ignoring the massacre of 75,000 Palestinians, and its failure to immediately unequivocally condemn the killing of the head of Iran’s leadership”.
Calling the United States the “biggest enemy of world peace”, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha said the “war in the Gulf shall bring new miseries to the world economy and to the people of India.”
The rally passed a resolution against the attack on Iran by US and Israel “and demanded that the central government...
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