Tag Archives: Haryana

Former Congress Speaker Rahul Gandhi is likely to lead a protest in Punjab this week in support of farmers agitating against the government over three farm laws passed by Parliament last week, people familiar with the development said. Gandhi is also expected to address a rally, the date and location …

The farm reform bills, passed amid protests by the opposition and BJP ally Akali Dal in Parliament this week, have sparked resentment across India among farmers who fear the new legislation will remove the Minimum Price Support (MSP). Since yesterday, farmers have shouted slogans and blocked roads in various parts …

NEW DELHI: The body of the FADA car dealership said Friday the closing of Harley Davidson’s operations in India would lead to job losses for up to 2,000 workers at the brand’s 35 dealerships. Harley-Davidson said Thursday that it will discontinue sales and manufacturing operations in the country. India’s action …

Despite the approval of the agricultural reform bills in Parliament, protests in Haryana continue with various organizations preparing to support Bharat Bandh’s call on September 25. Farmer leaders said that various farmer organizations such as Bharatiya kisan union (BKU), all India Farmers Union (AIFU), all India kisan sangharsh Coordination Committee …

As a political battle rages to open up the agricultural sector and the procurement of agricultural products to large private players, farmers in one of the largest grain and vegetable producing states, Uttar Pradesh, are in a bind. Unlike the farmers of Haryana and Punjab, in UP the community, while …

Bhupinder Singh Hooda urged the Center to present a fourth bill in Parliament assuring MSP (Archive) New Delhi: When the central government decides to attack the opposition using the Haryana contract farming rules implemented by Congress, former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, under whose tenure the legislation was implemented, …

Thousands of farmers have blocked NH 344 national highway, also known as Ambala-Roorkee, near Milk Majra village in Haryana’s Yamunanagar district to oppose land reform bills currently being debated in Parliament. Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) state president Gurnam Singh Charuni led the protest in Yamunanagar and thanked farmers for coming …

Haryana farmers have launched their planned protest against the three land reform bills by mobilizing to block national and state roads on Sunday, even as Haryana Prime Minister Manohar Lal Khattar appealed calling on the farmers who do not block the roads and invited their leaders to a talk. to …

In May of this year, the government announced major reforms in agricultural markets. These included the deregulation of agricultural foods from the Essential Products Act (ECA). Farmers were also allowed to sell their produce outside of markets regulated by the government or the Agricultural Products Market Committees (APMC). Another set …

With intense agitation from farmers over the past fortnight in Punjab and Haryana, two regional allies of the BJP in the states, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), are feeling the ground slipping under their feet. . As a result, they have moved quickly to appear …