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 Union government will hold the sixth round of talks with protesting farmers’ unions on Wednesday, a fresh attempt to resolve a politically defiant strike by farmers who have surrounded the capital and want three recent farm laws in favor of reform. Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agrawal had sent a letter …
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The traffic situation on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border and on the Delhi-Noida border remained the same on Tuesday, with normal vehicular movement for motorists leaving Delhi, but blocked for those heading towards the capital. The Singhu and Tikri borders, however, remain completely blocked due to ongoing farmer agitation. Deputy Police Commissioner …
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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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