Tag: Farmers protest
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Backed farmers’ stir: CM to Sikhs
“I share an excellent bonding with the brothers and sisters of the Sikh community. Even members of my family are regular visitors here. “I have already extended my support to the farmer's movement. We (TMC) have already demanded that these three farm laws be withdrawn. We won’t tolerate any injustice on farmers,”
September 16, 2021 -
Continued stir in Punjab ‘uncalled for’, farmers’ fight is against BJP : Capt
Amarinder said there was no question of trying to split the farmers of Punjab and Haryana, all of whom were equal victims of the apathy of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led governments at the Centre and in the neighbouring state.
September 15, 2021 -
Government ready for probe into Karnal incident: Anil Vij
The government has already transferred Karnal sub-divisional magistrate Ayush Sinha, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who was caught on camera directing police to hit protesting farmers on their heads if they breached the security cordon.
September 9, 2021 -
‘Life paralyzed without internet access at Karnal’: local Residents
The local residents and businesses owners are facing problems in digital transactions which are affecting their daily businesses.
September 9, 2021 -
Prestige fight: Farmers protest enters 3rd day in Karnal
The farmer leaders, after holding talks with the administration on Wednesday, announced that the farmers' sit-in protest would continue until their demands are met.
September 9, 2021 -
Farmers sit in protest at Karnal DC office enters 2nd day
Kisan Mahapanchayat took place Tuesday morning during which an 11-member farmers' delegation went to meet Karnal Deputy Commissioner to submit a memorandum of their demands.
September 8, 2021 -
BJP can talk to Taliban but not Farmers, says Congress
"If needed, we will break the barricades. No security can stop farmers from attending the mahapanchayat," said Jagdeep Singh Chaduni, a Karnal-based Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU).
September 7, 2021 -
Farmers our own flesh and blood: Varun Gandhi urges govt to re-engage
"Varun Gandhi was feeling sidelined in the party since 2019 and most recently was asked not to campaign during the recently held panchayat elections,"
September 5, 2021 -
Odisha: Farmers stage novel protest over stray cattle menace
The daily work in both the offices was disrupted for about three hours because of the forced entry of the stray cattle, said officials.
August 25, 2021 -
Talks between protesting farmers, Punjab govt remain inconclusive
For the past two days, farmers have been blocking the Delhi-Amritsar national highway near Jalandhar, along with the rail tracks demanding a hike of the state assured price (SAP) of sugarcane to a minimum of Rs 400 per quintal.
August 22, 2021 -
Farmers’ Protest Hits Train Movement, National Highway In Punjab’s Jalandhar
Farmers sitting on the Jalandhar-Chaheru section have blocked the Ludhiana-Amritsar and the Ludhiana-Jammu rail tracks in Jalandhar, affecting several trains, including the Amritsar-New Delhi (02030) and the Amritsar-New Delhi Shane-e-Punjab (04068).
August 21, 2021 -
Union Minister dubs farmers protest as ‘brokers struggle’, faces flak
Shobha Karandlaje on Tuesday had said that the government has held 11 rounds of meetings with agitating farmers and Prime Minister is trying to remove the shackles of farmers through these new sets of laws.
August 18, 2021 -
Opposition joins farmers’ protest, AAP skips
AAP MP Sushil Gupta said that if the protest was done under the leadership of LoP Mallikarjun Kharge, then they would have joined.
August 6, 2021 -
Delhi cabinet rejects police’s panel of lawyers for cases related to farmers protest
The Cabinet meeting chaired by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal decided that the Delhi government' lawyers will be the public prosecutors in court matters related to the farmers' agitation.
July 16, 2021 -
Toolkit case: Shubham gets protection from arrest till March 15
Chaudhari had moved the court seeking pre-arrest bail in the matter, in which another climate activist Disha Ravi is an accused. She was granted regular bail last month.
March 12, 2021 -
BKU leader Rakesh Tikait promises to take farmers’ movement to West Bengal
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a farmers'' "mahapanchayat" at Garhi Sampla here, the peasant leaders said like many other states, they will tour West Bengal too shortly.
February 16, 2021 -
Twitter withholds 97% of accounts, posts flagged by IT Ministry
With this move, it is highly likely that the fortnight-long deadlock between Twitter and the Indian government will finally come to an end.
February 13, 2021