Delhi police said on Thursday they were investigating a “larger conspiracy and criminal design” behind the violent tractor demonstration by farmers on Republic Day and that this would be done under strict sedition and sedition sections. Law for the Prevention of Illegal Activities. This is in addition to the investigations …
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A day after clashes broke out between police and farmer groups from the Tikri border during a planned tractor parade that took a violent turn, rioters at the protest site insisted that those who took pleasure in the incident were ” infiltrators “sent to” defame and derail “their movement against …
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Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping on the Delhi border for several weeks, demanding the repeal of laws that they claim will lead to the weakening of the minimum support price (MSP) system. . The three contentious laws are the Trade in …
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The eighth round of negotiations between the protesting the farmers’ unions and the Center about him recently enacted farm laws ended on an unfinished note on Friday, with farmers sticking to their key demand for repeal of the agrarian laws and the Center insisting on limiting the conversations to contentious …
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Farmers sit in the back of their tractor wagon as they continue to block a road on the Delhi-Haryana border on the outskirts of New Delhi. (AP Photo / Manish Swarup) Farmers’ Protest Live Updates: Representatives of farmers protesting at the Delhi borders arrived at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi on …
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The Union Government will hold the sixth round of talks with protesting farmers today. New Delhi: The sixth round of talks between the government and farmers to demand the repeal of the Center’s new agricultural laws will take place today at 2 pm. The government expects a breakthrough to resolve …
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The protesting farmers’ unions agreed Monday on a government proposal to hold the next round of discussion on the new farm laws on December 30. However, they insisted that the meeting’s agenda should include the discussion of the modalities to repeal the three laws. Hours earlier, the Center had invited …
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Meanwhile, when the government of the Center announced the release of 18 billion rupees as part of the latest installment of 2,000 rupees each into the farm household accounts of 9 million rupees under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, several farmers said That amount may be huge, but one …
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After Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Rashtriya Loktantric Party (RLP) head Hanuman Beniwal also left the National Democratic Alliance on Saturday. Addressing the farmers’ rally in Shahjahanpur, in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, Beniwal said: “Goodbye. We are leaving NDA. Nothing is above the pride of the country’s farmers ”. Bharatiya …
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In a letter, they express “serious concern” over “ongoing civil unrest” in India. A group of seven US lawmakers, six Democrats and one Republican, have written to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the farmers’ protest, expressing “serious concern” over “ongoing civil unrest” in India. The letter asks Mr. …
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