After a Pentagon report expressly detailed the first Chinese settlement in the state, satellite imagery has revealed another, 93 km away from the first.
Over the last year and more, BJP leaders have tried their hardest to claim that it was not farmers who were protesting, but 'anti-national elements'.
All farmers that The Wire spoke to remembered the over 700 people who allegedly passed away in the course of the protests.
In additions to natural barriers – rains, intense heat and biting cold, and different points in the year – the farmers also had to deal with a defiant government that put the police forces forward.
At every stage of the agitations, the BJP-led government attempted to crush the farmers’ movement. And failed.