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A gangster-turned-social activist, accused of instigating protesters who led to the violence on Republic Day, claimed Wednesday that he only marched to the outer ring road in the national capital and never had an agenda to go to the Fort. Red. Lakhbir Singh Sidhana, alias Lakha Sidhana, a native of …

Farmers have been protesting for more than two months. New Delhi: Punjab peasant leaders will address protesting farmers on one of Delhi-Haryana’s key borders this morning, a day after the capital witnessed unprecedented violence when a Republic Day tractor demonstration by part of the farmers protesting the agricultural laws of …

Concerns that the tractor parade could get off course were voiced during a series of meetings held at the Home Office (MHA) in recent days, sources told The Indian Express. However, despite reservations from the Delhi police, a political call was taken to allow the demonstration rather than allow farmers …

NEW DELHI: protest farmers unions stuck to its demand for a complete repeal of three contentious farm laws in its ninth round of talks with three central ministers, but while the government asked them to be more flexible in their approach and expressed its willingness to make necessary amendments, as …

NEW DELHI: The government should resolve the “political deadlock” on the new farm laws without the involvement of the Supreme Court, the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) said on Sunday and warned that protesters farmers “They will soon close all the borders” of Delhi if their demand for …

The seventh round of talks between farmers’ representatives and central leadership to end the stalemate on farm laws, enacted in September last year, began at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi on Monday. Both parties observed two minutes of silence in tribute to the 50 protesting peasants who died during the unrest. …

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Police fired tear gas canisters on Sunday night to thwart a march by a group of agitators farmers towards Delhi in the Masani bombing of the Rewari district. The farmers first broke through the police barricades erected near the village of Bhudla Sangwari and then began to move …

A day before the crucial seventh round of talks between the Center and protesting farmers’ unions, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Sunday met with Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and discussed the government’s strategy to resolve the current crisis as soon as possible, sources said. Tomar discussed with Singh “all …

NEW DELHI: In a scathing attack on the Center over the farmers‘protests, Congress President Sonia Gandhi said Sunday that for the first time since independence a government so “arrogant” has come to power that it cannot see the sufferings of the ‘annadatas’, and demanded that the new agricultural laws be …

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 …