Farmers’ unions said on Saturday that protesting farmers, who had been camping at border points near Delhi and neighboring states, would enter the national capital on Republic Day (January 26) and hold a tractor march if their demands for the repeal of agricultural laws. and ensuring a legal guarantee of …
Read More »‘Confidence In Ongoing Agricultural Upheaval Will End’: MoS Kailash Choudhary Ahead Of Jan 4 Meeting
Ahead of the Center’s seventh round of meetings with farmers protesting the three farm laws on Monday, the Union for Agriculture Minister of State (MoS) Kailash Choudhary said Saturday that a solution would emerge during the talks and that the ongoing commotion would end. Choudhary said the laws, which were …
Read More »Farmers’ protest live updates: Sindhu and Tikri borders continue to be blocked – live update
With the seventh round of talks between the farmer groups and the central government taking place on Monday, the farmer groups said on Friday they would intensify their agitation if the government did not resolve their demands to repeal the three controversial agricultural reforms and a legal guarantee of Minimum …
Read More »Two national highways closed due to commotion; Farmers have yet to decide on the sixth round of talks
The Delhi Traffic Police said on Saturday that two national highways, NH9 and NH24, were closed for the movement of traffic from Delhi to Ghaziabad, as farmers continue their protests against the central government agricultural reforms introduced in September. When updating travelers via Twitter, the police advised them to take …
Read More »Farmers’ Agitation: Tomar Says Hopeful Protesting Unions Will Resume Talks With Government Soon
As the farmers’ agitation against three farm laws entered its 27th day, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said Tuesday that he hopes the protesting unions will soon complete their internal discussions and resume talks with the government to resolve the crisis. He met with two more peasant corps from Delhi …
Read More »The farmers’ protest will intensify before December 14; Stalemate Continues As Talks Fail
Farmers have been protesting against the three central government agricultural reforms for the past 15 days. Several rounds of talks have taken place between leaders of farmers’ groups and union ministers, but they have not reached a logical conclusion. The sixth round of talks that were supposed to take place …
Read More »Farmer turmoil: talks between Amit Shah and farmer leaders fail to make a breakthrough
Talks between Interior Minister Amit Shah and a select group of farmers’ representatives failed to achieve any progress Tuesday night, with union leaders insisting on their demand for repeal of three new laws and rejecting the proposed government amendment. Some leaders also threatened to boycott the sixth round of talks …
Read More »SAD and Shiv Sena meet to discuss ties and agricultural stir
The Shiromani Akali Dal delegation met on Sunday with the Prime Minister of Maharashtra and the President of Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray, on various issues related to the “interference of the Center in the rights of the states”, in a significant step of the opposition political parties at the national …
Read More »Farmers across the country break language barriers and join the protest
Pooja Morey, a 30-year-old woman from Maharashtra, cheers and applauds as a farmer leader delivers a speech in Punjabi from the Singhu border stage on a warm Sunday afternoon. Morey, who does not speak Hindi very well, understands little of Punjabi, but says it doesn’t matter. “My father is a …
Read More »Opposition parties call back to Bharat bandh
A number of political parties, from Congress to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), have backed on Tuesday the call for a Bharat bandh (closure strike) in support of farmers who have gathered on Delhi’s borders to protest against three agricultural laws introduced. through the Center, as the city’s traffic police braced …
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