NEW DELHI: Delhi Police is to secure the borders, and how! Roads are being excavated with cranes, iron fences and spikes are being cemented into the ground, layers of barricades are being placed, with concrete poured between two barriers for added stability, and concertina wires and rocks are being placed …
Read More »‘Way to Fool Farmers’: Invitation from the Center’s Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee for Next Round of Talks
Two days after the Center wrote to the farmers’ unions protesting against the three farm laws inviting them to the next round of talks on their election date, the farmers protesting on Tuesday said this was not a step forward from the government but a “way to deceive farmers.” In …
Read More »Punjab-based farmers body accuses government of ‘dividing’ movement refuses to attend meeting with Center
The Punjab-based farmers body Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) declined to participate in a meeting called by the Center on farm laws on Tuesday, demanding that representatives of all farmers’ unions be invited to the talks. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar had invited farmers’ union leaders to the talks on …
Read More »Farm bills: farmers body announces three-day ‘rail roko’ upheaval in Punjab starting September 24
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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