Farmers walk towards Delhi as part of their ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest near the Shambhu Barrier in Punjab on February 14, 2024. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Even as protesting farmers from Punjab continue to camp near different locations on the boundary with Haryana, farmer representatives and Union Ministers will hold another set of talks … Read more
With Lakhimpur Kheri turning a political battleground, K N Govindacharya, a former key RSS and BJP functionary, on Monday appealed to political parties to give primacy to the interests of farmers and not theirs, and asked the Uttar Pradesh government to not treat the violence there as merely a law and order issue. Expressing his … Read more
Congress workers on Monday staged a demonstration near the BJP headquarters and outside the Uttar Pradesh Bhawan here to protest against the violent clash in Lakhimpur Kheri that left four farmers dead. Lakhimpur Kheri incident: Priyanka Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav detained; key developments as UP boils Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son was booked in connection with … 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
Many had politics behind them, and some were alleged to be motivated by politics. Visuals of an unruly mob, said to be a segment of protesting farmers — a claim denied by farmer groups — storming the Red Fort in the national capital will be etched in minds for years to come. Just as America … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Feb 06, 2021) GHAZIABAD: The number of farmers protesting at UP Gate has been dwindling ever since violence erupted on the streets of Delhi on Republic Day. While a number of important farmer unions have called off the agitation and are headed back home with their supporters, a faction … Read more
MUMBAI: Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over barricades and roadblocks being set up at the sites of the farmer agitation at Delhi’s borders, the NCP on Tuesday asked whether he was planning to start a “war” with the peasants of the country. Maharashtra Minister and NCP’s national spokesperson Nawab Malik also said … Read more
CHANDIGARH: Alleging that farmers from Punjab are being beaten up by police and assaulted by goons at their protest site on Delhi borders, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh called an all-party meeting on Tuesday to show unity and evolve a consensus on the way forward on the three contentious Central farm laws. The meeting will be … Read more
Chandigarh: After briefly appearing to be fizzling out following the Republic Day violence in Delhi, the farmers’ stir against the agri laws on Saturday seemed to be reviving with more and more of farmers groups heading to the national capital from various parts of Punjab. Various farmer leaders on Saturday claimed that with more and … Read more
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Kisan Union president Balbir Singh Rajewal said on Wednesday that farmer unions did not wish to be impleaded in the ongoing case in the Supreme Court and wished that the court should not discuss legal points about the farm laws as the matter could then stretch for long. Speaking from the protest … Read more