With its first headline – ‘Unite, Fight and Win’ – and its name based on the tractor trolleys on which Punjab’s farmers arrived at the borders of Delhi to protest the new farm laws, it caught the imagination of the national and international media immediately. Today, Trolley Times, a bilingual newspaper for farmers that was launched on December 17, 2020, appears to be the new Kirti.
They have a paper of their own to organise the peasantry”. In its February 11, 1928, edition, Pravda, a Russian newspaper then the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Soviet Union, wrote: “Good news from Punjab. This newspaper not only led to the formation of the Kirti Kisan Party but also caught the attention of the national and foreign press. Jalandhar: Nearly a century ago, when desperate farmers and labourers in Punjab agitated for their rights in British-ruled India, they found a platform in a newspaper called Kirti (Labourer).
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