The Delhi Traffic Police said on Monday that several border points in the national capital, such as Ghazipur, Singhu, Auchandi and others, have been closed to the movement of traffic due to agitation by farmers against the Center’s agricultural reforms, which have been going on for 19 days. intensified. Farmers …
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 »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 »Activist Licypriya Kangujam joins farmers’ protests against the Center’s new farm laws
Farmers’ Protest: “Dining Langar on the Singhu Border”, Licypriya Kangujam (left) New Delhi: Licypriya Kangujam, the nine-year-old climate activist, has supported farmers protesting against the center’s new farm laws for the past 18 days. Licypriya Kangujam told the farmers that climate activists from around the world are with them. Ms. …
Read More »Farmers Protest Live Updates: 3,500 Police To Be Deployed To 5 Delhi-Haryana Toll Roads – Live Update
With farmers preparing to block the road and picket toll plazas on the border with Delhi on Saturday in response to a call from protesting farmers’ unions to intensify their agitation against the three agricultural sector laws, it has unfolded police personnel to protect toll booths. and ensure smooth traffic, …
Read More »Farmer turmoil is likely to continue and intensify, says NCP chief Pawar
The head of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Sharad Pawar, said on Friday that the ongoing farmers’ protest is likely to be prolonged and intensified if the Center does not make a decision as soon as possible. He said the protest that is currently on the Delhi borders could spread …
Read More »Farmers’ Protest: Why Farm Reforms Are Hard to Sell
As the 1990s began, India found it difficult to repay the interest on the $ 90 billion in foreign loans that had underpinned a socialist system, causing a balance of payments emergency. Then the country resorted to a series of economic reforms to get out of the crisis. The 1991 …
Read More »Split opposition to meet with President Kovind on the farmers issue
Rashtrapati Bhavan Would Allow Representatives From Only Five Parties Citing Covid-Related Restrictions New Delhi: A team of opposition leaders, mostly Congress and left-wing parties, will meet with President Ram Nath Kovind tonight to present a memorandum on the farmers issue. The meeting comes amid talks about a rift within the …
Read More »The opposition has double standards in agricultural sector reforms: Ravi Shankar Prasad
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday criticized opposition parties for politicizing concerns about recently passed farm laws and misleading farmers, saying they oppose Narendra Modi’s government for the sake of doing so. Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that political parties that have supported the farmers’ ongoing protest …
Read More »BJP responds to opposition over farm laws
Agricultural Laws: Ravi Shankar Prasad said that contract farming also started during the Manmohan Singh government. New Delhi: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today accused non-BJP parties of jumping on the farmers’ protest train, saying that all that has been done in the agricultural sector reforms of the government of …
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