A large number of farmers, including women, showed up at a farmers’ meeting at the Landhdi toll plaza on the Hisar-Sirsa National Highway on Tuesday. (Express photo) Referring to the multiple layers of barricades placed at the borders by Delhi police and the reduction of internet services, Samyukta Kisan Morcha …
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With the edge completely sealed, the alternate route is blocked 24×7 New Delhi: Concertina cables sandwiched between four layers of yellow barricades, slightly out of the way, crisscrossed parked buses and trucks – Delhi police have left little to chance in their efforts to prevent Uttar Pradesh farmers from crossing …
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One day after they attended the Muzaffarnagar mahapanchayat to support BKU leader Rakesh Tikait, hundreds of farmers from villages in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana showed up at the Ghazipur protest site on Saturday in tractors and trucks loaded with rations and bottles. of water. Subodh Kumar, a farmer from Khanjarpur …
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GHAZIABAD / NEW DELHI: Waving farmer leaders held a one-day fast at various protest sites on the Delhi borders on the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death on Saturday as the uproar against the farm laws appeared to regain momentum after gathering support from the farming community in the crucial region …
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Rakesh Tikait is a highly unlikely adversary of the ruling dispensation in the Center. The 51-year-old Delhi police officer turned farmer leader admits to voting for the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The majority did the same in his Jat community-dominated village of Sisauli in Muzaffarnagar district. from …
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NEW DELHI / BATHINDA: One day after the violence during the tractor parade shook the capital, agricultural unions agitating for the repeal of the new central agricultural laws postponed their ‘Marcha Sansad’ (march towards Parliament) scheduled for budget day on February 1 and decided instead to hold a one-day fast …
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NEW DELHI: As thousands of farmers continue to protest at various borders in the national capital demanding the repeal of three new farm laws, a representative group of their unions received a Wednesday draft proposal from the government on some key concerns raised by protesters. The draft proposal has been …
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When the Center sent a new proposal on Wednesday, which included the guarantee of a minimum support price, a change in the APMC law, taxes on private players, etc., protesting farmers hardened their position and said that if the government is stubborn not to withdraw the laws, so farmers are …
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NEW DELHI: One day before the crucial sixth round of government talks with protesting farmer representatives, Minister of the Interior Amit shah on Tuesday he met with a select group of union leaders in an attempt to break the deadlock. Sources said 13 farmer leaders were summoned for the meeting, …
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Farmer groups met with three Union ministers on Saturday for the fifth round of talks amid ongoing protests over the Center’s new farm laws. Union Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Railways, Trade and Food, Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash, who is a …
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