Bengaluru: Karnataka is bracing up for a day-long shutdown on Monday by thousands of farmers and others across the southern state in protest against the controversial farmers’ bills passed by the Centre and the state government last week. “We have tightened the security and deployed additional police personnel in cities and towns across the state … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress has come out in support of the Shiromani Akali Dal, which quit the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre over the three farm bills that were recently passed in Parliament. In a tweet on Sunday, TMC national spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’ Brien offered the party’s support to … Read more
JAIPUR: Accusing the central government of betraying farmers, former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Saturday asked how will the Centre pacify farmers about the farm bills when it failed to convince its own minister over it. He demanded that the Centre withdraw the three bills in the interest of farmers. “The central government … Read more
New Delhi: Congress-ruled states are exploring legal options to circumvent implementation of the new farm legislation. Even as the Congress is planning nationwide protests against the farm Bills, passed by Parliament earlier this week, the governments in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan may take legal recourse. Speaking to ET, Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel said, “I have … Read more
New Delhi: In a sign of more bitterness between old allies Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the BJP, SAD President Sukhbir Badal said on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “had been shaken up by the bomb of Harsimrat Badal’s resignation” and the PM was hence now speaking on the farmer bills daily. Badal also … Read more
By Brijendra SinghPre-Independence Punjab was relatively accomplished in agricultural production. By the 1930s, however, the farming community was mired in indebtedness due to the exploitative nature of the existing system. One of the earliest set of institutional agrarian reforms came about with the Punjab Debtors Act, 1936, and the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1939, … Read more
By Amit Shah Indian agriculture has for long suffered from apathy and policies rigged to benefit others at the cost of the farmer. Under successive Congress governments, ringing tributes were ritualistically paid to the industry of “kisan”, but the loudly declared intent to help farmers never translated into ground reality. Committees were formed with the … Read more
Rajya Sabha on Monday suspended eight members, including TMC leader Derek O’Brien, a day after the House witnessed unprecedented unruly scenes by protesting opposition members during the passage of farm bills. Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu also rejected a notice for no confidence motion against deputy chairman Harivansh on the grounds that proper procedure was not … Read more
NEW DELHI: The NDA parties, barring Shiromani Akali Dal, backed the government openly during the debate in Rajya Sabha on the two Farm Bills on Sunday but just three parties- YSRCP, Tamil Manila Congress and BPF- among the non-NDA, non-UPA groups came out in support. The Opposition underlined its concerns over the likelihood of Minimum … Read more
New Delhi: The top brass of the central government on Sunday flayed the opposition over its members’ “unruly conduct” in Rajya Sabha during the passage of the two farm bills, condemning their behaviour as “shameful” and unprecedented in Parliament’s history. Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Prakash Javadekar, Pralhad Joshi, Piyush Goyal, Thawarchand Gehlot and Mukhtar Abbas … Read more