The only peaceful protest in the last 15 years was Anna Hazare’s, and that actually changed the regime.
Baba Ramdev’s protest was also peaceful, but it was brutally lathi-charged, while the Shaheen Bagh protest was a textbook example of large-scale violent anarchy that made it easier for the state to crack down.
The farmers’ protest was a mixture of both anarchy and demonstration, while having enough numbers to choke the whole of Delhi for an entire year. CJP and Congress can never match the grit and patience of Punjabi, Haryanvi, and Jat farmers, nor the muscle of violence like jihadi mercenaries.