Farmers Protest
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Celebrations at Ghazipur border, crowd expected to swell after farm laws repeal announcement
India | Nov 19, 2021, 01:54 PM ISTThe Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), which is leading the protest at Ghazipur, however, said the protest will not be withdrawn until the laws are repealed in Parliament.
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Farmers' demands half met, movement to continue for new MSP law: Hannan Mollah
India | Nov 19, 2021, 01:46 PM ISTPM Modi, in an address to the nation, announced that the govt has decided to repeal the 3 farm laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year.
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Hope govt draws lessons to not bypass Parliament: Anand Sharma on repeal of farm laws
India | Nov 19, 2021, 01:30 PM ISTAnand Sharma said that practice of the BJP government to bypass Parliamentary scrutiny by not referring the bills to standing committees and joint select committees has created complications and conflicts.
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Electoral defeat, not 'martyrdom of over 600 farmers' prompted PM Modi to repeal farm laws: Priyanka
India | Nov 19, 2021, 12:25 PM ISTPriyanka Gandhi alleged that BJP leaders have insulted farmers by calling them 'terrorists, traitors, goons, miscreants'. She added that PM Modi himself called the agitators ‘andolanjeevi’.
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Justice prevailed, farmers' protest vindicated: Congress on farm laws repeal announcement
India | Nov 19, 2021, 11:59 AM ISTFarm Laws Repealed: Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that the agitation has won and the arrogance has lost.
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Victory of farmers and democracy over injustice: Bhupesh Baghel on repeal of farm laws
India | Nov 19, 2021, 11:46 AM ISTPM Narendra Modi has announced that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year, and appealed to the protesting farmers to return home.
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Historic victory of farmers on Gurupurab: Parkash Singh Badal
India | Nov 19, 2021, 12:27 PM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi, in an address to the nation this morning, announced that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year.
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Repeal of farm laws should be seen as gift from PM Modi to protesting farmers: Dushyant Chautala
India | Nov 19, 2021, 11:38 AM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address to the nation on Gurupurab, announced that there farm laws will be repealed in the coming Winter session of Parliament.
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Farm laws repealed: Farmers not fazed by cruelty with which BJP treated them, says Mamata Banerjee
India | Nov 19, 2021, 11:31 AM ISTBanerjee's comment came after PM Modi on Friday announced that the govt has decided to repeal the three farm laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year.
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'Mann ki baat' of people: Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut on repeal of three farm laws
India | Nov 19, 2021, 11:50 AM IST"BJP leaders were openly calling these farmers Khalistanis and Pakistanis, but the Union government had to bend before the farmers' pressure," said Raut.
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Protest will end when farm laws repealed in Parliament, says Rakesh Tikait
India | Nov 19, 2021, 10:36 AM ISTRakesh Tikait also stressed that the government should talk to farmers over the issue of minimum support price (MSP) of crops and other matters.
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Government withdrew farm laws in fear of loss in polls: Congress
India | Nov 19, 2021, 10:08 AM ISTThe three farm laws that were passed last year around the same time have been a cause of widespread agitation with a consortium of farmers staging a protest, especially in northwest India and at Delhi's doorsteps and earlier within the national capital too, demanding the government to repeal it.
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Farm laws repealed: PM Modi's top quotes
India | Nov 19, 2021, 10:36 AM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws.
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Punjab quashes cases against farmers in connection with stubble burning, anti-farm laws stir
India | Nov 18, 2021, 11:05 AM ISTChanni also appealed to farmers to refrain from stubble burning in future, "as it is hazardous both for the environment as well as human health" besides hampering the fertility of the land to an enormous degree.
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Won't contest Punjab polls; connecting with those who'd fight through their parties: BKU president
India | Nov 16, 2021, 06:41 AM ISTChaduni made the above statements after he attended a meeting with United Kisan Morcha leader Surjit Singh Phool and various other district heads of farmers unions at Dera Kar Seva Gurdwara in district Karnal, Haryana.
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Delhi: Punjab BJP leaders meet PM Modi over assembly polls, farmers' protest
India | Nov 14, 2021, 12:23 PM ISTPunjab is slated to go to the Assembly polls in 2022. In 2017 Assembly polls, Congress had won an absolute majority in the state by winning 77 seats and ousted the SAD-BJP government after 10 years.
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Kisan Mahapanchayat in Lucknow on Nov 22, protest to be intensified in Purvanchal: Rakesh Tikait
India | Nov 09, 2021, 06:19 PM ISTRakesh Tikait said a 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' will be held in Lucknow on November 22, four days ahead of the anti-farm law protest at Delhi borders completing one year.
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'Condolence even when a dog dies...': Satya Pal Malik attacks Centre over farmers protest
India | Nov 08, 2021, 12:38 PM ISTThe Meghalaya Governor said leaders in Delhi send condolence messages even when a dog dies, however, they are not bothered about the death of farmers.
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750 farmers died in farm movement, no condolence from govt: Rakesh Tikait hits out at Centre
India | Nov 08, 2021, 07:22 AM ISTFarmers have been protesting at different sites since November 26 last year against the three enacted farm laws. Farmer leaders and the Centre have held several rounds of talks but the impasse remains.
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Rohtak: BJP leaders, watching PM Modi's Kedarnath programme live, held hostage by farmers
India | Nov 05, 2021, 04:25 PM ISTThe leaders were watching PM Modi's programme in Kedarnath live at a temple in Rohtak's Kiloi village when dozens of farmers suddenly surrounded them.