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print versionSAHMAT
Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust
c/o 36 Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla Lane (Canning Lane)
New Delhi-110001
Email: sahmat8[at]yahoo.com
Tel-23381276/23070787
7.12.2020
We the undersigned members of the artists community and academicians stand firmly in solidarity with the country’s farmers, lakhs of whom are protesting across different states and gathering in strength at the borders of the national capital to express their rejection of the three Farm Acts and the Electricity Amendment Act 2020. These Acts seek to regulate the entire system to promote the corporatization of the agrarian sector and contractualization of farming to benefit corporate investors. Exploiting the surging Corona pandemic, the central government brought ordinances that speedily received presidential assent, and passed the Acts in a completely undemocratic manner and with no respect for the strong opposition of the farmers and workers.
Further, the Acts themselves are anti-constitutional as agriculture is a concurrent subject and cannot be legislated on without the involvement and consultation of the state governments. However, this shocking behaviour is no longer even a surprise with the present government.
Hence we strongly support the demand of the farmers that the three Farm Acts and the Electricity Amendment Act 2020 must be immediately repealed. We support the call for all citizens to observe `Bharat Bandh’ on 8th December 2020.
Vivan Sundaram
M.K.Raina
Ram Rahman
Geeta Kapur
Parthiv Shah
Sohail Hashmi
Madangopal Singh
Indu Chandrasekhar
Veer Munshi
C.P.Chandrasekhar
S. Kalidas
Vidya Shah
Saeed Mirza
Irfan Habib
Jasbir Jassi
N.K.Sharma
Atluri Murali
P.K.Shukla
Zoya Hasan
Shireen Moosvi
Rajinder Arora
Rajni Arora
Aban Raza
Valay Singh
Simar Puneet
Pallavi Gaur
Arushi Vats
Ahmar Raza
Nuzhat Kazmi
Shriyam Gupta
Vishwaraj Mohan
Shatam Ray
Shreya Varma
Maitreyi Sinha
Priyanshi Saxena
Samira Haksar
Shreya Varma
Gopa
Rishabh Arora
Tsering Negi
Kumaraswamy Pashikanti
Deepani Seth
Subrat Beura
Prerna Kapur
Prabhat Patnaik Economist
Utsa Patnaik Economist
Astad Debu Modern Dancer
Prerna Sharma Artist
Gigi Mon Scaria Artist
Aviral Scaria Artist
Sania Hashmi Film Maker
Moggallan Bharti, Academician
Kausar Wizarat Retired Lecturer
Zafar Agha Journalist
Sarah Hashmi Actor
Salman Khan Producer
Rahul Verma Journalist
Anjali Raina Doctor
Jaishree Shukla Photographer
Abhilasha Kumari Academician
Ras Bihari Das retired IRTS
Namita Unnikrishnan
Deepak Sanan Retired IAS
Manohar Nayak Journalist
Sushil Singh Journalist
Puneet Nicholas Yadav, Journalist
Medha Dutta, Journalist
Himanshu Joshi, Travel writer Photographer
Namita Jain, Free Lance Writer, Editor
Vibha Galhotra Artist
Rahul Aggarwal Graphic Designer
