NEW DELHI: A day after stones were allegedly thrown at the peasant leader’s convoy Rakesh tikait in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, leader of the Congress Rahul gandhi on Saturday he said “we will face the Sangh together” and we will not stop until agricultural laws are repealed. The police …
Read More »The government-farmers meeting ends; Next round on January 19 | India News
NEW DELHI: protest farmers unions stuck to its demand for a complete repeal of three contentious farm laws in its ninth round of talks with three central ministers, but while the government asked them to be more flexible in their approach and expressed its willingness to make necessary amendments, as …
Read More »Talks stall as unions continue to insist on repeal | India News
NEW DELHI / BATHINDA: The seventh round of talks between the Center and the farm unions Monday was unfinished. The latter insisted that the new farm laws should be scrapped, which has been at the top of his agenda, and nothing less was acceptable. The government responded and continued to …
Read More »Farmer leader receives death threat amid protests, case filed: police
Adequately manned police force deployed at Gazipur protest site: officer (representative) Ghaziabad: An FIR was registered on Saturday in a complaint alleging that Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait, who has been participating in the agitation against farm laws, received a death threat on his phone, a senior said. …
Read More »In UP, farmers receive Rs 50 lakh notice for protests, police say they will review the sum
Written by Amil Bhatnagar | Sambhal | Updated: December 18, 2020 7:54:51 am The notices of Rs 50 lakh each were sent to six leaders in Sambhal, mainly officials from the Bhartiya Kisan (Asli) Union. Days after UP’s subdivisional magistrate in Sambhal sent out notices calling on agricultural leaders to …
Read More »Haryana farmers protest against the agricultural sector ordinances, block NH-44 in Kurukshetra
Members of the Bhartiya Kisan Union blocked National Highway 44 near Kurukshetra in Haryana despite the presence of a heavy police force, deployed to thwart the protest rally proposed by farmers and commission agents at the grain market of Pipli in the district. The police used light force to disperse …
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