TIME FOR A CLIMBDOWN?
The runaway show of strength on January 26, leading to incidents of violence in the capital and the siege of the Red Fort, has forced the protesting farmers on the back foot. It has also broken their ranks, with several farm leaders who were committed—as agreed in negotiations with the government—to a peaceful tractor rally on Republic Day, straining to distance themselves from the renegade leaders. This lot, they insist, hijacked plans to continue the peaceful resistance till the government yielded to their demand for a repeal, nothing
