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.
The family of one Mahkam Singh has filed a case in a sub-divisional magistrate court, accusing four-time BJP MLA Kedarnath Shukla and his brother Markande Shukla of land grabbing.