In this interview, Lachhman Singh Sewewala discusses his background as a Dalit leader from the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union representing landless agricultural labourers in Punjab and the reasons why some of them joined a protest dominated by upper-caste landowning farmers. He addresses the pressing issues they face, such as economic and caste exploitation, as well as the predicament of indebtedness and suicide of labourers and small farmers. His union campaigns for land redistribution and for the implementation of the Common Land Act (1964).