Tag Archives: Agricultural laws

Farmers union leaders held a press conference on the Singhu border today New Delhi: Twenty farmers have died since the protest began outside Delhi and the government, which is responsible for this, will have to pay, peasant leaders from the Singhu border declared today. December 20 has been declared a …

NEW DELHI: Thousands of farmers have been protesting for almost three weeks on the outskirts of the national capital against the three new agricultural laws promulgated by the Center. Several rounds of negotiations between the government and protesting farmers failed to break the deadlock. The government says the new laws …

Mohali: Peasant leaders in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state, say they have had to disguise themselves to evade heavy police surveillance and join protests against agricultural laws. Palbhai Ambaliya, Yakub Guraji and Jayesh Patel, together with other leaders and representatives of Gujarat farmers unions, had formed an umbrella …

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra modi on Tuesday he said farmers who have been agitating against the three agricultural laws on the borders of Delhi they have been wrong and reiterated that the new laws are intended for their welfare. “The agricultural reforms that have been carried out are exactly …

A four-year-old boy was seen helping farmers on the Singhu border, where they are protesting against the new agricultural laws. The boy named Rehaan, with his father Mehtab Alam, went to the Singhu border to distribute packets of cookies and bananas to protesting farmers on Saturday, ANI reported. Several people …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that opposition parties who are now against farm laws and who “cheat farmers” were in favor of reforms when their party was in power. “The people who are sitting in the opposition and deceiving farmers today were in favor of these agricultural reforms …

Prime Minister Modi said last week that the new laws will boost farmers’ incomes. Amid the ongoing protest by farmers on the Delhi borders against the Center’s new agricultural laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with members of the farming community, including Sikh farmers in Gujarat, during a visit …

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said Monday that during the farmers’ protest photographs of people “giving anti-national speeches in Delhi” were seen. Some elements are trying to deceive farmers by taking advantage of their protest, the Minister of Road Transport and Roads told the ANI news agency, adding that the government …

Winter session of parliament: All parties are in favor of canceling the session, the government said. (Archive) Highlight The Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Pralhad Joshi, confirmed this in a letter. He was responding to Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary Chaudhary demanded a session to discuss farm laws amid protests This …

NEW DELHI: Seeking to keep the lines of communication open with unions that oppose the new agricultural lawsAgriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Monday the government was ready to discuss clause-by-clause legislation once farmer agitators responded to a series of government-proposed amendments. However, agricultural unions intensified their agitation in …