I have told all the leaders of the parties as well as farmers that the Govt is ready for an open discussion. We have been talking to them. We have given them a proposal, we will talk with them again after their proposal comes: Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar
The document in Thunberg's tweet had details about January 26 protests and other street protests. The screenshots of the documents were widely shared on social media.
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It has been over 2 month since farmers are agitating against the farm laws at Delhi border. The BKU chief Naresh Tikait today said that the farmers are ready to talk with the government but for this there should be a health environment. He urged govt to give-up their obstinate attitude to end this deadlock.
A day after international pop star Rihanna voiced her support for the ongoing farmers protests in India, the Government on Wednesday reacted sharply over recent remarks made by a few foreign individuals over the issue.
Why were people allowed in the Red Fort? Why weren't they stopped? Ask the Home Minister what the objective was, of letting those people inside the premises: Rahul Gandhi, Congress
The unfortunate violence near the Red Fort on Republic Day is an eye-opener and it holds lessons for the law-enforcement agencies and the police.
On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of farmers riding tractors and motor cycles and on foot had swarmed the Red Fort, climbed up to its ramparts while waving the tricolour, farmer union flags and pennants with religious symbols.
Since morning we had been appealing to farmers to go by pre-approved route but some of them broke police barricades, attacked police personnel. Appeal to farmer unions to help maintain peace. This isn't a peaceful protest on Republic Day: Shalini Singh, Jt CP, in Nangloi, Delhi
A Delhi Police personnel rescued by protesters as one section of protesters attempted to assault him at ITO in central Delhi
On Sunday, Delhi Police had allowed the tractor rally after the annual Republic Day parade. Farmers began their march from different border points, much before the time permitted to them for their tractor rally.
Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, are protesting against the Centre's new agri laws at various Delhi border points, including Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur, since November 28 last year and on Republic Day, they took out tractor parades that passed through the national capital.
In a sensational disclosure, the masked man who appeared in a press conference along with farmer leaders to allege that he has been asked by the police to unleash violence on the farmers on the 26th of February outside Delhi, has confessed to the police that he lied in the press conference about an alleged attack against farmers.
Protesting farmers on Thursday rejected the government's proposal to suspend the three contentious farm laws for one year. They remained adamant on the repeal of the agriculture reforms and said that the tractor march scheduled for January 26 will go on as planned. The decision was taken at a marathon meeting on Thursday, a day before the eleventh round of talks between the farmers and government. Sankyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farm unions leading protests at several Delhi border points, held a discussion at the Singhu border and decided to turn down the government's latest offer.
Agitating farmers on Thursday rejected the Modi government’s offer to suspend the three farm laws for 18 months and insisted on complete rollback of the agricultural reforms, dashing hopes for an end to the 58-day protests.
BKU president Bhupinder Singh Mann, who was one of the four members of the Supreme Court-appointed committee on farm laws, on Thursday said he is recusing himself from the panel.
Indian National Congress General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala on January 11 slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Supreme Court's statement to Centre on farm laws. He said PM Modi to wake up and revoke the farm laws.
The tractor rally is being seen as a show of force a day before farmer leaders and ministers are to meet yet again - for the eighth time - for talks on the farm laws, which the farmers say put them in shaky ground on MSP.
The seventh round of talks between the Centre and farmer unions over the three farm laws on Monday could not ensure any headway. The next round of talks will take place on January 8.
This is the first meeting this year to break the deadlock over the repeal of three agriculture legislations and a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP).
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