As PM Narendra Modi travels to Glasgow to take part in the COP26 meet, the Indian diaspora has announced to hold demonstrations in dissent. The demonstration at George Square in Glasgow will be in solidarity with the ongoing farm movement in India, where lakhs of farmers have been sitting in protest against Modi’s government for nearly a year. Farm movement has received overwhelming support from the Indian community living abroad.
2. Shaheed Kalash Yatra in Maharashtra and Tamilnadu
In Maharashtra, a Shaheed Kalash Yatra began with great enthusiasm from Mahatma Jyotirao Phule’s house in Pune. The yatra began after garlanding the statues of Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule. An assembly of farmers was also held. The yatra will end with a huge Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat in Mumbai at the Hutatma Chowk on November 18th.
At Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu, where salt satyagraha was organized by Rajaji during Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March in 1930, a four-day Shaheed Kalash Yatra concluded with a meet attended by hundreds of farmers and citizens. After the meet, the ashes of martyrs was immersed in the Bay of Bengal.
