NEW DELHI: Amid an ongoing protest against three farm laws, a delegation of 29 farmers from Haryana met with the Minister of Agriculture Narendra singh Take Saturday to extend their support for the new legislation and threatened to organize a protest if they are repealed. The delegation, led by Bharatiya …
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NEW DELHI: Threatening to further intensify their protest, peasant leaders said on Saturday that they are ready to hold talks with the government, but will first discuss repealing all three. new agricultural laws. Address a press conference at Singhu border, farmer leader Kanwalpreet Singh Pannu said that thousands of farmers …
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Haryana Senior Deputy Minister and Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) Leader Dushyant Chautala met with Defense Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Saturday, a day after the former announced that he would resign from his post at the Haryana government if it cannot guarantee a minimum price of support. (MSP) …
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LIVE updates from farmers ‘protest: Farmers’ leaders on Wednesday rejected the government’s proposal to amend three controversial farm laws and announced that they would intensify their agitation by blocking the Jaipur-Delhi and Delhi-Agra highways by Saturday, and escalating at a national level protest on December 14. Farmers have been protesting …
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NEW DELHI: The Center on Wednesday sent a draft proposal to allay the concerns of thousands of farmers protesting the new farm laws at various border points in Delhi. In its draft proposal, the Center said that it is willing to provide a written guarantee that the Minimum support price …
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LIVE updates from farmers’ protest: Union Interior Minister Amit Shah reiterated the government’s position against repealing new farm laws in a meeting with farmers on Tuesday, after which the sixth was canceled round of negotiations scheduled for today. Leaving the meeting, peasant leaders said that the government would instead submit …
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New DelhiIf the government’s Minimum Support Price Program (MSP) helped to properly create a minimum price, farmers in the top 11 agricultural states would have earned, on average, nearly Rs 1.9 billion more from selling their produce. According to The cables data analysis from Agmarknet, the government’s price information system, …
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Farmers protesting against new agricultural laws they have asked for a ‘Bharat Bandh’ on Wednesday. There are several similarities between the current agitation of farmers and the Shaheen Bagh protests that had taken place from December of last year to March against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). In fact, several …
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NEW DELHI: A set of three laws on farming passed by Parliament in September has prompted thousands of farmers to protest outside Delhi in the past two weeks. Farmers have expressed fear that the new agricultural laws it will eliminate MSP’s safety cushion and discard the mandis, thus leaving them …
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NEW DELHI: State Minister for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary reiterated Sunday that the three laws passed by the government are in favor of farmers, adding that the laws will not be repealed, but if necessary, the government will make some amendments to the laws to recognize the agitating demands of farmers. …
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