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Farm Laws: As Pressure Mounts, Dushyant Offers to Be a Mediator

WITH PRESSURE mounting on the BJP-JJP government in Haryana from farmers’ protests, Senior Vice Minister Dushyant Chautala offered on Thursday to act as a mediator between farmers and the Center to resolve the standoff. This happened on a day when a group of villagers used shovels to damage a temporary …

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Farmers protest: BJP sees plot, others give weight but socially distanced

For now, farmers’ protests in Punjab against the Center’s three agricultural laws are bringing together, despite their differing and often conflicting interests, sectors of farmers large and small, landless farm workers and commission agents. It is also a time of unity for Punjab’s notoriously fragmented agricultural unions. The turmoil is …

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