Mismanagement, miscreants, or machination… not to mention those who underplayed their part, the IB and the Police.
While we are busy playing ‘Pass the buck’ and flaying aimlessly, left, right and centre. I wonder what led thousands of determined miscreants toward the Lal Quila? It is much more than what meets the eye. Let us not fathom the incident just by the tip of the iceberg.
It would be farfetched to believe that the actual protesting farmers who braved the harsh conditions relentlessly for sixty days; went berserk on ‘Republic Day’ to destroy what they had struggled to build so far. How does one ingest the idea that after all they went through, they would destroy it overnight?
It is just too fantastic to believe.
The government had nothing to lose except the face of failing to come up with a solution despite ten rounds of dialogue. It is not the MSP. The government feels their turnaround would give a booster to the dying opposition parties. A fact they cannot allow or acquiesce to.
The farmers have already held on to the protests longer than expected. Creating a deadlock which they can’t undo. Their withdrawal would shatter their unity, integrity, and solidarity once and for all. They can only spurn the proposal. In this ‘Catch-22’ situation, the farmers enjoy the growing sympathy of the nation. A worrying factor for many.
Now the ominous questions from the remains of the day are:
1. Has the government accomplished what it had failed to achieve after ten gruelling rounds of dialogue?
2. Was it the wary partners, desperate to find a reason to wash their hands of the movement?
3. Is it the third front which is now scavenging the outcome for their political nourishment and enjoying the crack in the impregnable Modi government for its failure to manage? While sympathizing with the farmers.
However, as citizens, we all have certainly lost something as our day, as reverent as January 26th, stands ashamed.
Bobby George
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