Farmers sit in the back of their tractor wagon as they continue to block a road on the Delhi-Haryana border on the outskirts of New Delhi. (AP Photo / Manish Swarup) Farmers’ Protest Live Updates: Representatives of farmers protesting at the Delhi borders arrived at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi on …
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The protesting farmers’ unions agreed Monday on a government proposal to hold the next round of discussion on the new farm laws on December 30. However, they insisted that the meeting’s agenda should include the discussion of the modalities to repeal the three laws. Hours earlier, the Center had invited …
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Meanwhile, when the government of the Center announced the release of 18 billion rupees as part of the latest installment of 2,000 rupees each into the farm household accounts of 9 million rupees under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, several farmers said That amount may be huge, but one …
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Earlier in the day, Congressional leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met with President Ram Nath Kovind and sought the withdrawal of recently enacted farm laws. Gandhi told the president that the laws were “anti-farmers” and would cause farmers to suffer great losses. In other news, …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 22, 2020 10:42:51 pm Arhtiyas in Punjab began their four-day strike against the income tax raids, which they allege were carried out to intimidate them for supporting farmers’ agitation against the Center’s farm laws. Even when the protests against the …
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Written by Anju Agnihotri Chaba, Harikishan Sharma | Jalandhar, New Delhi | Updated: December 22, 2020 7:32:11 am Protesting farmers listen to a speech while camping on a highway on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border outside New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: AP) A day after the government invited farmers’ representatives to …
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As farmer protests against the three new farm laws on the Delhi border enter Day 22, the clash between protesting farmers and the government appears to be heading for a stalemate similar to that of Shaheen Bagh. The three weeks of peasant unrest have caused the ruling BJP to plan …
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Farmers protest against the new Farm Bill on the Singhu, New Delhi border on Monday, December 14, 2020. Express photo by Abhinav Saha On the 19th day of the protests, the leaders of 32 agricultural unions intensified their agitation by observing a day of hunger strike starting at 8 am …
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A 20-page proposal offered by the Center was rejected by farmers’ unions on Wednesday as “vague.” The farmers, who are firm in their demand for the three farm laws to be repealed, said that any further discussion with the government would be based on the proposals they receive. In its …
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Written by Harikishan Sharma | New Delhi | Updated: December 11, 2020 6:00:45 pm A child shouts slogans at the Singhu border during a farmers’ protest against the new agricultural laws in New Delhi on Thursday, December 10, 2020 (PTI Photo / Arun Sharma). ONE DAY after the farmers’ representatives …
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