Written by Navjeevan Gopal | Chandigarh | Updated: September 19, 2020 7:37:12 am Harsimrat Kaur Badal (right) shares the stage with her husband, Sukhbir Singh Badal (center) and Narendra Modi at a joint election rally. (File photo) One day later resigns as Union Minister of Food Processing Industries In protest …
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New Delhi: After Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from Narendra Modi’s cabinet over the introduction of three agricultural bills, pressure from the opposition increased on the BJP ally in the party Haryana Jannayak Janata and its leader Dushyant Singh Chautala to resign as deputy minister. Congressional spokesman Randeep Singh …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced critics of his government’s agricultural liberalization plan on Friday, a day after the lower house passed two of the three agricultural bills, accusing critics of spreading “disinformation and lies.” , while assuring farmers that the reforms were at their best. interests. His comments, made in …
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Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader who resigned as the Union’s food processing minister on Thursday night, said on Friday that farmers across India are protesting against the three bills they seek liberalize agricultural markets. Harsimrat Kaur Badal had resigned from the Union Cabinet on Thursday in …
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The Lok Sabha, by voice vote, approved two controversial pieces of legislation: the Bill on Trade and Trade (Promotion and Facilitation) of Agricultural Products of 2020 and the Agreement for the Guarantee of Prices and Agricultural Services of Farmers (Empowerment and Protection), 2020. The Essential Commodities Bill (Amendment) has already …
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Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from the Union Cabinet on Thursday in protest against legislation seeking to liberalize agricultural markets. The resignation came amid protests by farmers, whom SAD, the ruling Bharatiya Janata party’s oldest ally, counts as its main support base in Punjab, a key …
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Dushyant Chautala’s JJP heads a coalition government with the BJP in Haryana. (Proceedings) Chandigarh: The resignation of Akali Dal’s only Union minister, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet over agricultural ordinances, has put opposition pressure on Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janata party, which is heading a coalition government …
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The Lok Sabha approved on Thursday the Draft Law on Trade and Trade in Agricultural Products (Promotion and Facilitation), 2020, as well as the Farmers Agreement (Empowerment and Protection) on Price Guarantee and Agricultural Services, 2020 despite opposition and BJP ally Shiromani Akali Dal called it an “anti-farmer” measure and …
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Written by Liz Mathew | New Delhi | Updated: September 18, 2020 7:36:45 am Amid intensifying economic problems, unemployment and tension in LAC with China, the departure of the SAD from the Union government would give the Opposition a new way to mobilize forces against the BJP in the Bihar …
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Punjab farmers will protest against the central government’s three agriculture-related bills by organizing a three-day ‘rail roko’ agitation across the state from September 24 to 26, a farmers’ body announced. “We have decided to carry out a rail roko agitation from September 24 to 26 in the state against agricultural …
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