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Angst against farm laws proves a great unifier even a year since stir began

Series of events on November 26, tractor march to Parliament to commemorate protest anniversary. Agitation being planned in other parts of the country as well

Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait with Swaraj Abhiyan Chief Yogendra Yadav during a Kisan Mahapanchayat over the ongoing farmers agitation against Centres farm reform laws, in Muzaffarnagar (Photo: PTI)
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File picture of BKU's Rakesh Tikait with Swaraj Abhiyan Chief Yogendra Yadav during a Kisan Mahapanchayat over the farmers agitation against Centre's farm reform laws (Photo: PTI)

Sanjeeb Mukherjee Baghpat (UP)
Rampal Singh and his brother have seldom agreed on anything. Sitting in the large courtyard of their predominantly rural household in Sakrod village of the district, the two siblings disagree on most issues of the day.

While one sides with a visitor from a nearby hamlet on how law and order and security issues will determine voters’ preference in the coming state assembly elections to the politically crucial state of UP, the other feels that inflation and rising prices of almost essential items will play a decisive factor.

But one thing which unites both the brothers is their common dislike

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