 Hello and welcome to NewsClick. I am Aditi and this is the Daily Roundup. I am Prashant and here are the major stories for the day. Our top story for the day comes courtesy of PepsiCo, who are sowing nine farmers in Gujarat seeking damages of over one crore each for allegedly growing and selling its laze variety of potato under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act. These are considered among the first cases of alleged intellectual property rights infringement against farmers in India. NewsClick reporter Sumedha Pal was at the press conference in New Delhi where the All India Kisan Sabha addressed the issues from the farmer's standpoint explaining why this is a huge bogus case. She sent us this report. Let's have a look. Conference which has been organised by the All India Kisan Sabha about the case that PepsiCo has filed against innocent farmers from Gujarat. There were nine farmers who were sued by the corporate giants for using a certain variety of seeds also known as the FL-2027 or FL-205. So this is a variety of seeds that PepsiCo had accused the farmers of using and violating the patent of PepsiCo under the intellectual property. And they had said that the farmers had stolen the intellectual property rights of PepsiCo and this is why they should actually pay a compensation of rupees one crore and even more. Today the case hearing had taken place earlier and where PepsiCo has opted out to do an out of court settlement with the farmers and asking them to actually file written responses as to how this intellectual property violation was allowed to take place. They have also asked the farmers to destroy the kind of seeds, the variety of seeds that they had which is patented by PepsiCo. Now we are at the press conference today where we've spoken to Hanan Mola as well of the AIKS who has told us about what kind of steps are being taken to launch a campaign against PepsiCo and the kind of response that is being seeked from the big company. The activists on the ground are calling for the corporate giant to actually withdraw the case and the out of court settlement is actually nothing but a token attempt. Take a look at what he had to say. They appointed a detective agency private, they went to the field without informing the farmers, without informing the government and clandestinely they collected information around the basis of that they went to the court and they demanded this compensation. But our question is in the same act, it is mentioned. Not to be understanding whatever mention in this act, farmers have the right to use, so produce, reproduce all these seeds, they have the right. Article 391 is there, but there is certain provision, some restriction there. The branded seeds they would not be able to use. But other things they can produce, that rights are there. But we found that this foreign company, multinational company they are exploiting this far poor farmer to three acres land there from where they will get one and two point two kilo. And they cannot fight even in the court also. So we demanded this court, the PepsiCo should withdraw the case immediately and government should take action for the immoral, illegal way of collecting information against the farmers. Moving to Madhya Pradesh, there have been reports of a number of fake farm loans that were extended under the previous BJP government in the state. Farmers claim that the loans were taken in their names without their consent or knowledge. In some cases, these loans were extended even to dead people. Only after the current Congress government implemented the Jai Kisan Rain Mafia Yojna and lists of farmers who had received waivers was handed to panchayats did the farmers realize from different villages, Gwalior, Sagar, Indore, what was going on. Kashif Kakui reports. The farmers who did not receive waivers still got a salary of Rs. 1.5-2 lakhs or Rs. 1 lakhs in their names. Many farmers, the secretaries of the society have been deported to their homes by the secretaries of the society. The money that goes is not given to the farmers, it goes to the secretaries of the society. In Gwalior, the roughly idea that comes to mind is that the money is going to be Rs. 245 crores. And I still believe that the money is going to be Rs. 70 crores. Many people who are landowners, many of whom are called landowners, they are not from the Rajaswale family, they are not from the land family, they have been deported. The people who do not live in the village have been deported. The people who have been deported for the past 10-12 years the people who have been deported for the past 10-12 years have been deported for the past 10-12 years. And many of them have been deported for the past 10-12 years. The farmers do not know that they have been deported. They have been deported for the past 10-12 years. If this entire tax system is out of trust and if the tax system is mixed with the shopping centres, then this is the biggest issue in the country. We will leave everyone behind. From MP, we moved to Begu Sarai in Bihar where Basha Singh caught up with CPI Lok Sabha candidate and ex-JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar. The constituency goes to polls in three days on April 29. This fight is a fight for justice. On one hand, I told you how the forces are who are basically looting this country. And they are not justifying their loot but they are serving the country. Looting the country cannot be served. The country is going through many kinds of problems. On the other hand, there are ordinary people who are calling their voices against it. So, the support and support of all the people is moral and economic. We have made a contribution of 100 rupees in crowdfunding. Some are physically coming here to campaign and roaming around the tea shop, talking to people. So, gradually, people are contributing. No, some are asking for blessings from far away. They are giving blessings. So, this fight is... You are the symbol of this fight. It is not about a person. No, as a symbol, people are watching Kanhaiya. Kanhaiya is Begu Sarai's son. Kanhaiya is the face of the campaign for the democracy and the constitution. How is this an individual for you? I think that all things are not fixed in life. You will not be fixed that you will have a problem. You will go through those paths where you will not have any imagination that there will be a district of any country where you have not reached at all. Whereas, this quote-and-quote is considered to be a developed district of Bihar. You are seeing the situation of it. You are roaming with us. So, life creates circumstances and as a human being, you have to face it. We never thought that we would fight a elections. We never thought that all these people would feel their own way or that they will somehow get connected to our elections. So, that happened. I believe this is a positive sign and I do not have any pressure because I do not have anything to lose. Look, in India, the politics of caste and religion continue to be political. This is a very old thing. The new thing that needs to happen and that should happen is that issues-based politics will emerge. Right-based politics will emerge. And when we say that a good school should be formed, then all caste and community people will be associated with it. If the school is good, then all the caste people will study it. All the religious people will study it. If there is a good hospital, then all the treatment will be done. If there is a good road, then everything will feel good. If there is a good breeze, it is not that the breeze is bad, then it is said that no, we will destroy the lor cast, and we will not cast it. These are the questions that are emerging in the world. The problem is that whatever established political party is on either this side or that side, those who fight with caste and religion and with social engineering, will fight with it. In Begu Sarai, all those political parties will be destroyed. I believe that. To watch the entire ground report from Begu Sarai, keep a look out for the latest episode of Pulse of India with Basha Singh. For an international segment, we are joined by Prashant Radhakrishnan. Our first tourist from Colombia were hundreds and thousands of people took over the streets as part of the historic national strike on April 25th. These protesters came from all walks of life. There were students, teachers, doctors, pensioners, but they had one demand in common. They wanted the right to life, liberty and justice, and rejected the policies of the Ivandu government. The government responded by mobilizing nearly 20,000 soldiers in addition to paramilitary forces. In the capital of Bogota, the notorious paramilitary force fired tear gas on the protesters and even manhandled some of them. However, this did not break their spirit and they kept gathering in large numbers. The principal demand of the people who participated in the strike was that the government implement the peace agreement signed by the previous government with the former guerrilla group FARC. The other key component was regarding the national development plan which is being discussed in parliament right now. Many organizations have pointed out that this national development plan is based on an extractivist model which loots the resources in the country and provides great benefits to corporates while the people and their livelihoods suffer. Various sectors of Colombian society brought their own demands to the strike. For instance, teachers and students pointed out their education was heavily underfunded. Doctors, on the other hand, pointed out the various problems afflicting the health sector in the country. One key demand raised by many organizations was the fact that ever since the peace agreement was signed in 2016, there has been a marked rise in the assassination of social leaders. Nearly 600 social leaders have been killed since 2016. In our second story, we take you to Iceland where the credit card processing company, Valitor, was asked to pay 10 million dollars to WikiLeaks for not following the 2013 Supreme Court judgment on the issue. Valitor had refused to process payments to WikiLeaks and as a result was fined. In 2010, all the major credit card processing companies in the world including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal decided to ban any payments to WikiLeaks after WikiLeaks published documents exposing the secrets of governments of the world. In 2012, WikiLeaks appealed in a court against Valitor claiming that the ban was extrajudicial. The Supreme Court in 2013 agreed and asked Valitor to resume payments however they did not do so and this judgment was pronounced. Earlier this month, WikiLeaks found that Julian Assange was arrested in London after the Ecuadorian Embassy withdrew its asylum. He now faces an extradition hearing on May 2nd based on a grand jury indictment from the United States. Assange is charged with trying to crack a US defense department computer under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Of course, these acts refer to basically the publication of documents from US war crimes and were given to Assange and WikiLeaks by Chelsea Mani. That's all we have time for today. To find out more about these stories check our website newsclick.in and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Thank you for watching.