-Newsclick.in Many farmers also brought uprooted electric meters from their tube wells, dumped them on the premises of PVVNL and asked the officials to deposit them in the office. Lucknow: Farmers from across Western Uttar Pradesh intensified their ongoing protest by allegedly holding government officials hostage for several hours inside the Paschim Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd (PVVNL) under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU). The protest is against installing electric meters...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 69
UP: Kushinagar Sugarcane Farmers Demand Rs 44 Crore Dues -Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in The farmers are also demanding free electricity for irrigation and grants for borewells, tubewells, ponds and tanks, as promised by BJP during the last Assembly election. Lucknow: Sugarcane farmers of Kaptanganj sugar mill, in Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and surrounding villages have been protesting outside the tehsil under the banner of multiple unions demanding payment of around Rs 44 crore due for the ongoing crushing season for almost two...
More »Punjab: Farmers Call off Protests as AAP Govt Agrees to Several Demands -Vivek Gupta
-TheWire.in The farmers had stormed the Mohali-Chandigarh border on Tuesday, May 17 to press their various demands, including a bonus on wheat and advancing the paddy sowing schedule from June 10. Chandigarh: As many as 23 farm unions of Punjab, all members of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), had stormed the Mohali-Chandigarh border on Tuesday, May 17 to press their various demands, including a bonus on wheat and advancing the paddy sowing...
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 »22 farmer unions form political front, to contest Punjab Assembly polls
-The Hindu Samyukt Kisan Morcha says it will not fight the elections. Ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections due early in 2022, 22 of the 32 Punjab-based farmer unions that were at the forefront of the agitation against the now repealed farm laws announced on Saturday that they would contest the election under the banner of ‘Samyukt Samaj Morcha’ even as the the umbrella body Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) that spearheaded the...
More »
