How A Lack Of Leadership Birthed A Violent Mob

Farmer leaders were conspicuous by their absence, be it at the Red Fort or at ITO crossing.

- Abhay Singh & Abhinay Lakshman

NEW DELHI: Even as television news channels and several people on social media compared protesting farmers breaching the Red Fort to the Capitol Riots in the United States, an unnecessary and incorrect equivalence was drawn to compare the violence inflicted upon citizens with the help and endorsement of state authorities to protesters tuning to anarchy as a result of failed law and order arrangements and protest organisation.

While the fact the Delhi Police has once again failed to ensure that protests are carried out but peacefully with knee jerk reactions from the starting of the tractor parade cannot be ignored, the silence of farmer leaders as their fellows went about wreaking havoc in the Capital breaking promises they had made to the police also needs to be addressed.

At nearly every place Millennium Post was reporting from, farmers had an impulse reaction to break and remove barricades whenever they saw any. And quite easily, they were able to push past law enforcement agencies given their numbers.