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Congress will launch its nearly two-month-long “mass movement” against the government on Thursday for passing bills “against farmers and the poor” during the monsoon session of parliament. The party will also collect two million signatures from farmers protesting the proposed laws. The Draft Law on Trade (Promotion and Facilitation) of …

Congress has decided to launch a national protest starting Thursday against the two agrarian reform bills recently approved by Parliament. The decision to agitate at the national level was made at a meeting of secretaries general and heads of states held at the Congress party headquarters in Delhi. “Starting on …