Varun Gandhi has demanded a legal guarantee for the minimum support price, also one of the demands of farmer unions protesting against three farm laws.
Priyanka Gandhi claimed that the entire Bundelkhand region of UP is facing a severe shortage of fertiliser.
The Delhi Police on Thursday started removing barricades put up at the Tikri, Ghazipur borders where thousands of farmers are protesting against the Centre’s three farm laws, news agency ANI reported. Watch what Rakesh tikait has to say on this.
Three women lost their lives when they were run over by a speeding truck in Haryana's Jhajjar. The driver of the truck was arrested by the police.
The development comes after the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmer unions spearheading the anti-farm laws protests, reportedly asked the Nihangs to leave the agitation site following the lynching of a Dalit labourer for allegedly desecrating a Sikh holy book.
This will be Amarinder Singh's second meeting with Amit Shah after he resigned as the Chief Minister of Punjab on September 18.
This is Kejriwal's second visit to Punjab this month in the run-up to the state assembly polls due to be held early next year.
In an official statement, the SKM has said this is mainly to demand the arrest and dismissal of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.
Ahead of upcoming Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Congress is set to hold statewide 'Pratigya Yatras' from October 23 to November 1.
Without making a direct attack, the BJP leader has been critical of the government's handling of agri issues of late and has also sympathised with the farmers protesting against the three farm laws.
A man was assaulted near farmers' protest site allegedly by a Nihang Sikh. His leg was fractured at the Singhu border in Sonipat after the latter refused to give him chicken for free, said Haryana Police on Friday.
It was for the second time that Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra was remanded in police custody by Lakhimpur Kheri’s Chief Judicial Magistrate Chinta Ram.
According to the police, the victim has been identified as Manoj Paswan, who works at a poultry farm located on the border.
Farmers at the Ghaziapur border in Delhi are vacating a section of the service road below the flyover to allow the movement of public vehicles. The service lane portion of the road goes from Ghaziabad to Delhi, on which the media centre was built by the farmers. Farmers will now sit only on the upper part of the flyover.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh have been agitating at three Delhi border points -- Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur -- since last November against the three farm laws. Over 10 rounds of talks between farmers and the government have failed to break the deadlock.
The apex court said that 'farmers have right to protest but they cannot block roads indefinitely.'
Arvind Kejriwal said that the Delhi government is committed to helping the farmers. He added that compensation paid to farmers in Delhi is the highest in the country.
Punjab Deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said that the state government will reach the bottom of the case to identify the conspirators behind the killing at the Singhu border.
Protesting farmers, including women, raised slogans against the BJP-led government at the Centre and demanded the arrest of Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra. Security personnel were deployed at railway stations in the wake of the 'rail roko' protest.
The SKM said during the 'rail roko' protest, all train traffic will be stopped for six hours from 10 am till 4 pm on Monday.
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