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By: FE online | Updated: December 11, 2020 5:56:07 pm Farmers Protest 2020, Indian Farmers Protest HIGHLIGHTS: The Center has asked farmers to reconsider their proposal and engage in dialogue. Thousands of farmers from Haryana and Punjab have camped on the borders of Delhi. (AP) HIGHLIGHTS of the 2020 Indian …

Thousands of farmers have been protesting since the end of November. New Delhi: The farmers’ protest will intensify today as they plan to block the Delhi-Jaipur highway, a day after one of the 32 protesting unions caused the Supreme Court to rule against the center’s controversial agricultural laws. Peasant leaders …

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, …

Reiterating this claim, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar thinks that instead of the farmers’ union, “the protest has now gone into the hands of organizations working to break up the nation.” “When we had talks with them, they said they wanted people like Sharjeel Imam released,” he said as …

Minister of food and consumption Piyush Goyal tells TOI that the government is open to addressing farmers’ concerns, but adds that the amendments are intended to benefit growers across the country. He also says that the movement appears to have been infiltrated by ultra-leftists. Excerpts from a conversation with Sidhartha, …

NEW DELHI: Although protesting farmers had previously announced that they would intensify their agitation against the three December 14 farm laws, they are likely to do so two days earlier, on Saturday, blocking the Delhi-Jaipur highway. This, even as the government said there was no need for farmers to announce …

Written by Harikishan Sharma, Apurva Vishwanath | New Delhi | Updated: December 12, 2020 7:36:27 am A group of farmers at the site of the protest on the Singhu border in New Delhi on Friday. (Express photo by Abhinav Saha) Two days after the farmers’ unions rejected concessions offered by …

Written by Raakhi Jagga | Ludhiana | December 12, 2020 4:30:24 am Farmers en route to Delhi near Ludhiana on Friday. (Express Photography: Gurmeet Singh) More than 1,500 vehicles, including some 1,300 truck tractors, from nearly 1,000 villages in seven districts. This is the size of a new convoy of …

NEW DELHI: Steadfast in their demand to repeal all three farm laws, farmer groups continued their agitation on Delhi’s interstate borders for the 16th consecutive day on Friday. The leaders of the peasant groups affirmed that if the central government presented new positive proposals, they would retake the parliaments. Here …

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 …