He visited the state more than two years after the January 2022 Ferozepur incident, in which protesters’ road blockade forced him to retreat without speaking at a rally before the Punjab Assembly elections.
Ever since the Center passed three controversial farm regulations in September 2020, the PM and the state’s farming community have had a tense relationship. Farmers from Punjab and other states bordering Delhi began a year-long protest against the legislation, enduring the weather with amazing fortitude.
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The demonstrators were irritated by the authorities’ seeming disinterest and indifference. The Modi administration didn’t give in and decided to remove the legislation until November 2021. The state’s farmers, whose primary demand is a legislative guarantee for the purchase of all commodities at the minimum support price (MSP), have not been satisfied by even this historic backpedalling.
The brutal suppression of the Dilli Chalo march in February made the lack of trust even more pronounced. Discussions over the MSP problem have not produced a clear resolution, despite the fact that BJP candidates are encountering strong resistance in numerous communities due to allegations of the saffron party forsaking farmers.In the face of such adamant opposition, Prime Minister Modi decided to play the Sikh card in Punjab and celebrated the Kartarpur Sahib corridor’s opening in 2019.
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He continued, saying that if he had been prime minister in 1971, he would have grabbed Kartarpur Sahib from Pakistan before freeing their army of over 90,000 after the war in Bangladesh. In addition, he praised his government for revisiting case files pertaining to the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. His efforts to reach out to Sikhs, however, would not go over well with the angry farmers, who are not inclined to forgive the BJP for the abuse and demonization they have endured, particularly during the 2020–21 uproar.
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