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.