-NDTV The highway (NH-44) has been blocked by farmers protesting against the centre's new farm laws at the Singhu and Tikri borders since November last year. New Delhi: The protesting farmers, digging in their heels, have refused to attend the meeting called by the Haryana government about opening passage to the Delhi border. The highway (NH-44) has been blocked by farmers protesting against the centre's new farm laws at the Singhu and Tikri...
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Women farmers hold ‘Kisan Sansad’; pass resolution demanding 33 per cent representation in Parliament
-The Tribune Actress-activist Gul Panag also attends the ‘sansad’ Gender lines blurred and traditional roles reversed ever so often as men and women joined hands to share responsibilities in the farm, at home and at protest sites to keep up the prolonged fight against three agri laws, women farmers said here on Monday. Gathered for an all-woman Kisan Sansad (farmers' parliament), they demanded the repeal of the Essential Services Commodities Amendment Act, and...
More »Security beefed up at Jantar Mantar in view of farmers’ protest
-PTI/ The Hindu Farm unions plan protest at Parliament Security at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi has been tightened in view of a protest by farmers against the Centre's against the three agricultural reform laws on Thursday, July 22, 2021, amid the Monsoon session of Parliament, officials said. Adequate security arrangements have been made and police and paramilitary personnel deployed, they said. Jantar Mantar is a few metres away from the Parliament House where...
More »Farmers’ Protest: Civil Society Members Ask PM To Initiate Dialogue, End Deadlock -Kusum Arora
-TheWire.in The letter also appealed to the Samyukt Kisan Morcha leadership, the umbrella body of various farmer unions, to respond positively to the government’s invite if it is extended. Jalandhar: Urging the Centre to end the deadlock in the ongoing farmers’ protest, renowned intellectuals from across the country have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union agriculture minister Narendra Tomar to invite the farmers for dialogue ‘immediately’. Civil society members...
More »Farmers plan ‘wake-up call’ to government
-The Hindu Farmers will march peacefully to Parliament in May, says Samyukt Kisan Morcha. Thousands of farmers who have been protesting the three farm reform laws on the borders of Delhi will march to Parliament on foot in the first fortnight of May, Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders said on Wednesday. They also plan to block the Western Peripheral Expressway surrounding Delhi for 24 hours on April 10 and 11 as a...
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