NEW DELHI: One day before the crucial seventh round of talks between the Center and protesters farmers unions, farming Minister Narendra singh Tomar met with the defense minister Rajnath singh on Sunday and discussed the government’s strategy to resolve the current crisis as soon as possible, the sources said. Tomar …
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NEW DELHI: In a scathing attack on the Center over the farmers‘protests, Congress President Sonia Gandhi said Sunday that for the first time since independence a government so “arrogant” has come to power that it cannot see the sufferings of the ‘annadatas’, and demanded that the new agricultural laws be …
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Backing up the prime minister’s message to farmers on the new farm laws, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh took a conciliatory tone on Friday when he asked farmers to “experiment” with the new laws for “a year or two” beforehand. to seek any changes, while Interior Minister Amit Shah said the …
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Mohali: Peasant leaders in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state, say they have had to disguise themselves to evade heavy police surveillance and join protests against agricultural laws. Palbhai Ambaliya, Yakub Guraji and Jayesh Patel, together with other leaders and representatives of Gujarat farmers unions, had formed an umbrella …
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Farmers unions, particularly in Punjab and Haryana, say the new laws will lead to the dismantling of the MSP system under which government agencies buy their crops at a guaranteed price. In its proposal to farmers on Wednesday, the Center had said it would give a written guarantee that the …
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“The Center has admitted that laws have been made for traders. If agriculture is a state issue, the central government has no right to make laws about it,” said Balbir Singh Rajewal, another leader. Thousands of farmers have been protesting at various border points for almost two weeks seeking the …
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Agriculture is a state issue on India’s constitutional list; This list includes matters that require local knowledge. Agriculture is a biological business with a diverse climate and locally grown crops. The coconut farms of humid Kerala need a different plan than the apple farms of chilling Kashmir. The central government …
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