Written by Harikishan Sharma | New Delhi | Updated: December 9, 2020 2:55:33 am Farmers on the Singhu border in New Delhi. (Express file photo of Gajendra Yadav) ON One day when Bharat Bandh summoned by farmers unions saw a mixed response across the country, Interior Minister Amit Shah stepped …
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Written by Varinder Bhatia | Chandigarh | Updated: December 8, 2020 8:50:28 am Dushyant Chautala, then Hisar MP, rode a tracker to Parliament in 2017 to protest against changes to the Motor Vehicle Law that he claimed would add to farmers’ woes. (Express File / Prem Nath Pandey) During the …
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NEW DELHI: talks between the Minister of the Interior Amit shah and a select group of farmers’ representatives made no progress Tuesday night as union leaders insisted on their demand for repeal of three new laws and rejected the government’s proposed amendment. Some leaders also threatened to boycott the sixth …
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Bhupinder Singh Hooda alleged that the BJP-led Haryana government has lost the trust of the people New Delhi: On Tuesday, Congress said it was not against the agricultural sector reforms, but those introduced through the three recent laws did not reflect those changes, and demanded that these laws be removed …
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NEW DELHI: Bhartiya Janata Party (Bjp) on Tuesday launched a campaign on social media to separate fact from fiction about the new agricultural laws against which thousands of farmers have been protesting for more than a week. In the context of the ‘Bharat Bandh’ organized by the agitated farmers today, …
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Written by Raakhi Jagga | Ludhiana | Updated: December 8, 2020 8:49:51 pm Dr. Varinderpal Singh coming up alongside “We Support Farmers” from the stage while the Union Minister (third from left) In more symbolic support for the farmers’ protest on the fringes of Delhi, a senior agricultural scientist refused …
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Social media memes mainly distinguish between a “rumor” and the “truth.” New Delhi: The BJP today launched a social media campaign to endorse the three new agricultural laws introduced by the central government in September, in an attempt to dispel what it calls myths spread by political opponents of the …
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Written by Raakhi Jagga | Ludhiana | December 8, 2020 9:30:25 am Warm jackets are distributed to farmers during their ongoing ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation against the new farm laws, at the Singhu border in New Delhi on Sunday, December 6, 2020 (PTI Photo: Manvender Vashist). “Ab ki baar, kisan aur …
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Thousands of farmers started their protests last month. Washington: Several US lawmakers have voiced support for farmers mobilizing in India against new farm laws and urged that they be allowed to protest peacefully. India has called the statements by foreign leaders about the farmers’ protests “misinformed” and “unjustified”, as the …
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As thousands of farmers camped on Delhi’s borders seeking the repeal of three new farm laws, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told a group of farmers backing these laws on Monday that these measures will benefit the peasantry and the agricultural sector. and that the government will handle such upheavals. …
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