Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal will hold a one-day fast on Monday in support of farmers protesting against agricultural laws in the national capital. The CM also urged members and supporters of its Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to join it. “I ask all party supporters (AAP) and people across the …
Read More »Haryana-Rajasthan Border Sealed As Farmers Plan To Intensify Unrest; Those Who End Upheaval Not Associated With Us, Leaders Say
Farmers unions, particularly in Punjab and Haryana, say the new laws will lead to the dismantling of the MSP system under which government agencies buy their crops at a guaranteed price. In its proposal to farmers on Wednesday, the Center had said it would give a written guarantee that the …
Read More »Farmers to hunger strike today as protests escalate: 10 facts
Farmers have been camping on the outskirts of Delhi since late November because of the new farm laws. New Delhi: As protests against the government’s new agricultural laws mount, all the leaders of the farmers’ corps, which are backing thousands of protesters who have been camping near Delhi’s borders since …
Read More »A key farmer leader favors conversations, saying ‘goals were changed’
A key leader of the ongoing protests against three new farm laws has expressed dissatisfaction with the upheaval, breaking ranks with his colleagues on the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), a platform that is leading the protests. Sardar VM Singh, convener of the AIKSCC, told HT that the …
Read More »Chidambaram criticizes the Center for the issue of the farmers’ protest | India News
NEW DELHI: Congressional Top Leader P Chidambaram criticized Sunday central government and alleged that some of his ministers had alluded to the presence of “separatist” elements in the farmers’ ongoing protest against the agricultural reforms. “Ministers have described protesters against Agricultural laws like Khalistanis; agents of Pakistan and China; Maoists; …
Read More »10,000 more to join, Delhi on the brink of mega farmers protest India News
NEW DELHI: The Singhu border in Delhi is bracing for the biggest traffic jam in agricultural unrest so far on Monday, and 10,000 more protesters are expected to join those already at the protest site amid signs of Rajasthan that hordes of farmers are pulling on the leash. to proceed …
Read More »Farmers protest: ministers huddle as farmers threaten to block Delhi-Jaipur highway
The Union’s top ministers, including Interior Minister Amit Shah, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and State Minister for Trade and Industry Som Parkash, grouped together on Sunday as farmers who had been camping on the Delhi borders to Demanding the repeal of three contentious laws aimed at opening up agricultural …
Read More »Farmers will observe the hunger strike from 8 am to 5 pm tomorrow
New Delhi: As part of their protest against the recently passed farm laws, the heads of all farmers’ unions will observe a hunger strike from 8 am to 5 pm on Monday, said agricultural leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni at the Singhu border on Sunday. “The farmers will be on a …
Read More »Farmers’ upheaval: Australia’s 19-year-old NRI protests at Singhu border, says it’s here to join ‘patriotic movement’
Written by Kamaldeep Singh Brar | Amritsar | Updated: December 13, 2020 1:34:32 pm Moose Jattana at the site of the protest on the Singhu border. (Photo Express) Among the protesters who have joined the farmers’ fight against the Center’s farm laws on the borders of Delhi is an Australian …
Read More »‘I always listened to my conscience’: Punjab policeman resigns to support protesting farmers
A senior Punjab police official quit his job to support farmers protesting the three new agricultural laws, saying the laws were “detrimental to the interests of farmers and their future generations.” Punjab Deputy Inspector General of Police (Prisons) Lakhminder Singh Jakhar said he had submitted his resignation from the state …
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