“There is no Dalit leadership in the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM). It is a front of landowning farmers. None of them is a Dalit. Some said, ‘Why should we back the farmers then?’ Let them keep our demands at the centre of their movement. But we said, ‘How can we do that?’” says Gurmukh Singh, a leader of the Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Samiti, Punjab