Amid the ongoing protests by farmers against the Centre’s farm laws, BJP MP Virendra Singh Mast said the government will not withdraw the three legislations. The laws were not made to be withdrawn later, the MP from Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia said on Tuesday. Thousands of farmers from across the country, particularly Punjab, Haryana and Uttar … Read more
The Modi government has been harassing farmers not just for the last seven months of their protest against the three farm laws, but since it came to power seven years ago, the Congress alleged on Saturday. Party chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also posed a set of seven questions to the central government, asking whether it … Read more
Protesting farmers Sunday announced a series of events from February 23-27 to further intensify their agitation against the three new agricultural laws as they accused the government of adopting “repressive” measures against them. They also said they will soon devise a strategy to keep the protest going for long. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), which … Read more
New Delhi: Farmer unions agitating against the three agri laws on Monday asked the government to fix a date for the next round of talks, soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged them to end their stir and invited them to resume the dialogue. They, however, objected to Prime Minister Modi’s remarks in Rajya Sabha … Read more
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday appealed to people not to believe in rumours about illegal detention of farmers protesting against three new agri laws and asserted that the investigation is being carried out in a fair and transparent manner. Delhi Police PRO Eish Singhal said 44 FIRs have been registered and 122 people … Read more
New Delhi: Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Tuesday briefed Home Minister Amit Shah about the situation in Delhi where the farmers‘ tractor rally against the agri laws turned violent, officials said. The meeting came after a large number of farmers with their tractors broke police barricades and entered central Delhi areas, including Red Fort … Read more
NEW DELHI: The sixth round of talks between the protesting farmer unions and three Central ministers got underway here Wednesday afternoon to break the over one-month-long deadlock on the recent agri laws. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Railways, Commerce and Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash, who is … Read more
NEW DELHI: The protesting farmer unions met on Friday to discuss the government’s latest letter inviting them for talks, with some of them indicating that they may decide to resume their dialogue with the Centre to find a solution to the ongoing deadlock over the three contentious agri laws. The unions said they will hold … Read more
New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday alleged that all the hue and cry over the new farm laws is being raised by “professional protesters” who have nothing to do with farming. The Lok Sabha member from Jammu and Kashmir‘s Udhampur constituency interacted with the farmers living in the border areas of Kathua district … Read more
NEW DELHI: Haryana deputy chief minister and a key ally of the BJP, Dushyant Chautala, has termed the new farm legislations as “progressive” and has said farmers’ crops would be procured at minimum support price (MSP), a politically potent issue that has brought farmers of Haryana and Punjab on the streets. Speaking exclusively to ET, … Read more