If there is anyone who should not be surprised by the sustained and widespread opposition of farmers to the laws passed in September, it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Because these “reforms” bear exactly the same stamp of arrogance, lack of consultation and foresight that has characterized all the important …
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A senior Punjab police official quit his job to support farmers protesting the three new agricultural laws, saying the laws were “detrimental to the interests of farmers and their future generations.” Punjab Deputy Inspector General of Police (Prisons) Lakhminder Singh Jakhar said he had submitted his resignation from the state …
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NEW DELHI: Steadfast in their demand to repeal all three farm laws, farmer groups continued their agitation on Delhi’s interstate borders for the 16th consecutive day on Friday. The leaders of the peasant groups affirmed that if the central government presented new positive proposals, they would retake the parliaments. Here …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already made it clear that the MSP system would continue. By Prabhudatta Mishra and Banikinkar Pattanayak Farmers in Punjab have taken their protests against the Center’s agricultural laws to the national capital, and not without reason. For decades, a lethal combination of the Center’s distorted …
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