Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already made it clear that the MSP system would continue. By Prabhudatta Mishra and Banikinkar Pattanayak Farmers in Punjab have taken their protests against the Center’s agricultural laws to the national capital, and not without reason. For decades, a lethal combination of the Center’s distorted …
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Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted images showing Rahul Gandhi apparently sitting on cushions. New Delhi: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri attacked Rahul Gandhi today for images showing the congressional leader sitting in what appear to be padded seats on a tractor during a demonstration in Punjab to protest the center’s controversial …
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By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: September 29, 2020 7:05:02 pm A tractor was set on fire outside the India Gate in New Delhi on Monday. Attacking the opposition over protests against controversial farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that some people don’t want farmers …
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The youth wing of Congress said on Monday that a group of its members set fire to a tractor in Rajpath, which connects the Gateway of India with the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, in protest against the new agricultural laws as the party planned intensify protests against the legislation. …
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New Delhi / Chandigarh / Meerut Farmers in several states protested key farm reform laws passed by Parliament this week, disrupting life in Punjab, Haryana and parts of western Uttar Pradesh, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused opposition parties of spreading “lies” and misleading farmers for their own political …
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Written by Santosh Singh | Patna | Updated: September 24, 2020 7:17:13 am JD (U) general secretary KC Tyagi With polls looming in Bihar, the JD (U) appears to have taken a calibrated approach to controversy farm bills. The BJP’s main NDA ally in the state on Wednesday welcomed the …
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Written by Harikishan Sharma | New Delhi | Updated: September 24, 2020 7:26:20 am The Tomar assurances came even as informal talks between some high-ranking ministers and the Opposition on the bills continued Saturday with no progress. (Proceedings) Rejecting the demands of inclusion of minimum support price as a mandatory …
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By: PTI | Chandigarh | September 23, 2020 5:07:41 pm Subsequently, many youth workers were taken into preventive custody, police said. (Express photo by Jasbir Malhi / Representational) On Wednesday, Haryana police used water cannons in Panipat to prevent a demonstration led by the Haryana Youth Congress from heading to …
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Congress has decided to launch a national protest starting Thursday against the two agrarian reform bills recently approved by Parliament. The decision to agitate at the national level was made at a meeting of secretaries general and heads of states held at the Congress party headquarters in Delhi. “Starting on …
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Farmers across the country protest bills passed by Rajya Sabha Sunday (Archive) New Delhi: Opposition parties and farmer groups across the country, including Congress and the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), have announced plans to vigorously protest against the two controversial farm bills passed by Rajya Sabha on Sunday, amid pandemonium …
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