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Written by Liz Mathew | New Delhi | Updated: December 1, 2020 3:35:51 pm Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. (Archive) On Tuesday afternoon, when Defense Minister Rajnath Singh began the first rounds of talks With protesting farmers, the government hopes that he will pacify the farmers and lock them in “constructive …

Ajay Chautala of the Jannayak Janata Party said that “the government must solve the problem as soon as possible.” Chandigarh: The latest ally to warn the ruling BJP about continued farmers’ protests is the party of Dushyant Chautala, Haryana’s chief deputy minister. The government must think big and find a …

Mohali: On the fifth day of the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, farmers’ union leaders addressed the media on the Delhi-Haryana Singhu border for the second day today. Leaders addressing the press conference included Jagmohan Singh of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Dakaunda), Yogendra Yadav of Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sangharsh Samiti (ABKSS), Gurnaam …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already made it clear that the MSP system would continue. By Prabhudatta Mishra and Banikinkar Pattanayak Farmers in Punjab have taken their protests against the Center’s agricultural laws to the national capital, and not without reason. For decades, a lethal combination of the Center’s distorted …

Thousands of farmers have protested against the Center’s three agricultural laws: Trade and Trade in Agricultural Products (Promotion and Facilitation), Price Guarantee Agreement for Farmers (Empowerment and Protection), and Agricultural Services and Essential Products (Amendment). They fear that the laws would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum …

Written by Manoj CG | New Delhi | Updated: December 1, 2020 7:22:56 am Leaders of the Punjab Congress said a farmers’ movement could launch new leaders and the unrest could quickly “get out of hand”. While Congress supports the farmers’ protest in hopes that it will sharpen its political …

Written by Varinder Bhatia, Sukhbir Siwach | Chandigarh | Updated: December 1, 2020 5:53:36 am Delhi police first used trucks filled with sand to stop their tractors at the Singhu border. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna) Although the confrontation between farmers and the central government continued on the borders of …

Jasbeer Singh, 58, listed the names of places in Haryana where he had to circumvent police barriers before finally reaching Singhu’s state border with Delhi as he traveled from his home in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district, about 250 km away. Shambhu, between Punjab and Haryana, had been fortified with concrete …

Written by Amil Bhatnagar | New Delhi | Updated: December 1, 2020 7:54:28 am At a press conference on the Singhu border, representatives of the farmers’ unions said that they would continue to block the borders of Delhi until their demand was met (Express photo by Amit Mehra). As PROTESTING …

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday night said protesting farmers had been invited back to the talks on Tuesday. It had previously been decided that the next round of discussion would take place on December 3, but due to the incessant turmoil, the coronavirus pandemic and cold weather, …