Written by P Vaidyanathan Iyer | New Delhi | Updated: December 3, 2020 6:55:59 am Farmers gathered at the Singhu border of New Delhi. As the Center prepares to sit across the table with 35 farmer groups at 12 noon in Vigyan Bhawan on Thursday for the second round of …
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Protests by thousands of farmers against a set of land reform laws that they say will harm their interests have been simmering for the seventh day in a row, with talks stalled. While farmers want all three laws repealed and a new law passed that guarantees state-set minimum prices for …
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Written by Sukhbir Siwach | Chandigarh | Updated: December 2, 2020 8:09:34 am Head of JJP Ajay Singh Chautala With the majority of JJP’s 10 MLAs coming out in support of protesting farmers, BJP’s ally in Haryana on Tuesday backed their demand for MSP secured for crops. JJP chief Ajay …
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The Bharatiya Janata Party leadership is pushing for an early and friendly resolution of the farmers’ protest as the current unrest threatens to derail the party’s expansion plans in Punjab and undermines the government’s “pro-farmer image”. Union, said people familiar with the details. . Even when the meeting between the …
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Thousands of farmers have protested against the Center’s three agricultural laws: Trade and Trade in Agricultural Products (Promotion and Facilitation), Price Guarantee Agreement for Farmers (Empowerment and Protection), and Agricultural Services and Essential Products (Amendment). They fear that the laws would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum …
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Acquisitions increased after Bihar abolished APMC mandis in 2006, says Nitish Kumar. Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said today that the central government should allay the fears of farmers protesting the minimum support price (MSP), citing the experience of its own state of increased procurement since the abolition of government …
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New Delhi: A convoy of at least 10,000 female protesters heading towards Delhi from 14 Punjab districts is led by a female farmer. Harinder Bindu from Bhatinda has been a farmer for no less than 30 years. Bindu has lived his entire life in Punjab with his son, brother, sister-in-law, …
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Punjab CM Amarinder Singh has urged the center to help end the blockade of farmers protesting against agricultural laws and said he will meet with Prime Minister Modi and Interior Minister Amit Shah on the issue. Captain Amarinder Singh urged the central government to show magnanimity and agree to the …
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The Minister of Agriculture, Narendra Singh Tomar, and the Minister of Railways, Food and Consumer Affairs, Piyush Goyal, started talks with a delegation of representatives of farmers from Punjab, protesting against a set of laws recently passed to liberalize the agricultural sector , in Vigyan Bhawan, the capital of the …
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NEW DELHI: Punjab’s farm bills, which seek to take the state out of the purview of recently enacted core laws, may have pleased protesting farmers in the state, but the Center is unlikely to change its position on price minimum existing support (MSP) mechanism and will continue to focus on …
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