Farmers’ Protest in Delhi: Farmers started mass protests last week. New Delhi: The government and farmers will hold talks again today to resolve the stalemate on controversial farm laws as protests across the country intensify amid growing support. Thousands of protesters camped around Delhi’s borders insist that the laws be …
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Farmers on the Delhi border in Singhu on Saturday. (Express photo: Praveen Khanna) Union Interior Minister Amit Shah on Saturday called on farmers to move to the Burari farm in the national capital to organize their protests and said the Center is ready to hold talks with them as soon …
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Delhi police are using trucks filled with sand to detain farmers at the Singhu border. The ‘Dilli Chalo’ march of hundreds of Punjab farmers sparked a tense clash on the Shambhu interstate border, near Haryana’s Ambala district, as police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse them. Angry farmers …
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Farmers protest against Delhi: Water cannons were used at least twice to disperse farmers. New Delhi: It is absolutely wrong for farmers to be prevented from holding peaceful demonstrations against the Center’s new agricultural laws and using water cannons against them, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today. Haryana set …
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Last week, the President of India promoted the three agricultural bills, namely the Agricultural Products Trade and Trade (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 (FPTC), the Assurance Agreement of Farmer Prices (Empowerment and Protection) Services Bill, 2020 (FAPAFS), and Essential Products Bill (Amendment), 2020. The opposition and farmer organizations continue to …
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Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of wasting taxpayers ‘money while addressing a farmers’ rally in Sirsa, Haryana. The Wayanad MP, while addressing a rally during his ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra (Saving Agriculture)’ at Sirsa’s Dussehra field, said Prime Minister Modi bought Air India One because …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 4, 2020 8:00:45 pm Rahul Gandhi will hold mass public meetings and tractor rallies in Punjab and Haryana over three days. (Express photo by Gurmeet Singh) From the heart of the protests against the three controversial farm laws in Moga, …
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Protesting against the new farm laws, farmers sit at the train station in Jalandhar for an indefinite period as part of their agitation of the roko railway in Punjab on Thursday. (Express Photo by Gurmeet Singh) The main opposition party in Haryana leaves no stone unturned to turn the demonstration …
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Written by Harish Damodaran | New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 12:23:43 pm Farmers walk through a rice field when they return after the day’s work in Prayagraj (AP) On many occasions, it is not the law, but what it seems to convey and the context in which it …
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