-Livemint.com The farmers had announced suspension of their protest in November last year after PM Modi announced repeal of three farm laws The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), group of over 40 farm organisations that spearheaded years-long protest over farm laws against Centre, is likely to meet in Delhi on March 14 to discuss re-starting agitation, The Hindustan Times reported on Sunday. The SKM also contested recently concluded Assembly Elections in Punjab but...
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In U.P., a humbling loss for Akhilesh -Anuj Kumar
-The Hindu The decimation of BSP has hurt the SP chief the most in polls, say observers For somebody who threw the kitchen sink at the Bharatiya Janta Party during the election campaign, it has been a humbling loss for Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh. Observers said everybody knew that nobody could defeat the BJP on the Hindutva pitch but Mr. Yadav got a ‘godsend opportunity’ in the form of...
More »Uttar Pradesh verdict: Onward ho to a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ -Rajesh Sinha
-TheFederal.com BJP’s second consecutive win in Uttar Pradesh shows the electorate’s overwhelming acceptance for Hindutva politics despite personal grievances against policies that have led to mass-scale unemployment, rising prices, and other issues that seemingly hit closer home BJP has not just broken the Uttar Pradesh jinx of 35 years to score the second consecutive win in the state Assembly Elections, its victory is going to set the course of Indian politics till...
More »No wilting heat of farmers’ rage -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Limited impact in western Uttar Pradesh’s sugarcane belt After attracting thousands of farmers from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to join a year-long agitation, farm union leaders were largely unable to leverage that mass support to tilt the results in the Assembly polls. In Punjab, the union leaders who fought the elections are set to lose their deposits. In U.P., where the wider Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) platform campaigned against the BJP...
More »Why BJP is now talking about Uttar Pradesh’s stray cattle problem -Arunabh Saikia
-Scroll.in With anger building up over economic distress, voters might not be as forgiving about their farm losses this time. It took time but when it came, it was a flurry. A good ten days into the Assembly Elections and with two phases of the seven-phased polling already over, the Bharatiya Janata Party finally addressed the stray cattle problem in Uttar Pradesh’s fields. The first to break to silence was Prime Minister Narendra...
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