The police prevented 15 MPs from 10 opposition parties from reaching the Ghazipur border to meet with protesting farmers. (PTI photo) The BJP said on Thursday that the support of some foreign celebrities for farmers protesting against the three new agricultural laws was an attempt to “destabilize the country” and …
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A large number of farmers, including women, showed up at a farmers’ meeting at the Landhdi toll plaza on the Hisar-Sirsa National Highway on Tuesday. (Express photo) Referring to the multiple layers of barricades placed at the borders by Delhi police and the reduction of internet services, Samyukta Kisan Morcha …
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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 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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Earlier in the day, Congressional leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met with President Ram Nath Kovind and sought the withdrawal of recently enacted farm laws. Gandhi told the president that the laws were “anti-farmers” and would cause farmers to suffer great losses. In other news, …
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