farm laws 2020

GOVT, FARMERS AGREE ON 2 OUT OF 4 ISSUES, NEXT MEET ON 4 JANUARY

31 Dec 2020

New Delhi: The sixth round of meetings between protesting farmers and the government ended after over five hours with the Centre saying that the two sides had reached consensus on two out of four key issues. The next meeting will take place on 4 January. Addressing the media after the...

OVER 1,500 TELECOM TOWERS VANDALISED IN PUNJAB, FARM LEADERS DENY THEIR ROLE

30 Dec 2020

With more than 1,500 mobile phone towers having been vandalised in Punjab amid protests over the three farm laws, farmer leaders at the agitation site on the Delhi border on Tuesday appealed that these vital infrastructure should not be damaged. Denying any role in the damaging the telecom towers, farmer...

AGRICULTURE CAN’T BE RUN FROM DELHI: PAWAR ON FARM LAWS

30 Dec 2020

New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday blamed the Centre of bulldozing three new farm laws without consulting states. The former agriculture minister also asserted that agriculture cannot be run “sitting in Delhi” as it involves farmers toiling in distant villages. The NCP chief’s comment came...

NITI AAYOG MEMBER HAD SOUGHT KEJRIWAL’S VIEW ON FARM LAWS

29 Dec 2020

New Delhi: A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal went to the Singhu border to extend his support to protesting farmers and talked of an open debate on farm laws, an internal communication has come out in which a member of Niti Aayog had sought his feedback on his...

Leaders of 25 farmer groups meet Tomar, support new farm laws

29 Dec 2020

Amid the ongoing farmers’ protest on Delhi’s borders, representatives of around 25 farmer organisations on Monday gave a memorandum to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar in support of the new farm laws. “Today representatives from different farmers’ organisations from all over the country gave memorandum in support of the...

Stop maligning farmers’ genuine fight for justice: Capt Amarinder to BJP

28 Dec 2020

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday said that the BJP should stop maligning the farmers and their genuine fight for justice by calling them offensive names like “Urban Naxals”, “Khalistanis”, “Hooligans”, etc. “If the BJP cannot distinguish between anguished citizens fighting for their survival and terrorists/militants/hooligans, it...

Amid farm protests, Rahul Gandhi goes on personal trip abroad

28 Dec 2020

New Delhi: Amid ongoing farm protests, when several Opposition leaders are making a beeline to show their solidarity with farmers, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has gone out of the country on a personal visit, the party said on Sunday. He will also miss the party’s 136th Foundation Day programme on...

THE FARMERS’ AGITATION AND JUDICIAL OVERLOAD

24 Dec 2020

Bad governance overburdens the judiciary with unnecessary and avoidable litigation. Within a fortnight, two Supreme Court benches—the first led by Justice Nageshwar Rao and the second headed by Justice Sanjay K. Kaul—indicted the government for repeatedly ignoring directions given to it by constitutional administrative bodies like the CAT on providing...

Farmer leaders from UP, Delhi meet Tomar, extend support to farm laws

23 Dec 2020

NEW DELHI: Members of Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, Noida, and Indian Kisan Union, New Delhi, on Tuesday met Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and said that the new farm laws were in the interest of farmers and should not be taken back. The minister said in tweets that the delegations...

Sonia to hold Congress meet today, G23 talk, farm stir on agenda

19 Dec 2020

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has called for a meeting of senior party leaders on Saturday to formulate the party’s strategy on the current political scenario amid the ongoing farmers’ agitation against farm laws. The meeting will continue for 10 days. The sources said in the meeting “efforts will be...

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