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  Rajnath Singh slams Rahul Gandhi for 'misleading' farmers

  Politics | April 19, 2015 18:28 IST

  Chandauli(UP): Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh today slammed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for "misleading" peasants at the Kisan Maha rally and made an appeal to the community to not get misguided by rumours spread

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  NDA's Land Bill will be rejected in Rajya Sabha: Sharad Yadav

  Politics | April 19, 2015 17:21 IST

  Jammu: Janata Dal (U) president Sharad Yadav today noted that NDA government's ‘controversial' Land Acquisition Bill will be rejected by the opposition in Upper House of the Parliament."This bill (Land Acquisition Bill) is anti-farmer and

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  Farmers are scared that their land will be snatched: Rahul

  Politics | April 19, 2015 18:32 IST

  New Delhi: Projecting the government as 'anti-farmer' and 'pro industrialist', Congress today declared full scale war against it over Land Acquisition Bill with Rahul Gandhi accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of bringing ordinance on it

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  PM Modi attacks Opposition for projecting Land Bill as anti-poor

  Politics | April 19, 2015 16:48 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed a workshop of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs on how to take the government's pro-poor welfare programmes to the people to counter opposition's claim that the Land

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  Rahul Gandhi meets farmers, says will fight against Modi's land bill

  Politics | April 19, 2015 12:44 IST

  New Delhi: Making his first public appearance after his nearly two-month long absence, Rahul Gandhi today declared that he will oppose tooth and nail the Land Acquisition Bill and make the government heed to their

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  Rahul Gandhi back in action?

  Politics | April 18, 2015 8:52 IST

  New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi seems to back in action. He will today meet delegations of farmers from different states and hear their views on the changes being brought in the UPA's Land Act

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  Rahul Gandhi's meeting with farmers put off till Saturday

  Politics | April 17, 2015 14:42 IST

  New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's multiple meetings with farmer leaders have been "deferred" till April 18, a party leader said on Friday.The meetings were scheduled for Friday.Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the meetings were

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  Nitin Gadkari takes metro to reach Dwarka rally venue

  Politics | April 16, 2015 10:09 IST

  New Delhi: Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari took commuters of Metro rail by surprise as he boarded a train to reach a rally venue in Dwarka here.The senior BJP leader, who was

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  SC to hear PIL challenging re-promulgation of Ordinance on Land Acquisition

  India | April 13, 2015 8:52 IST

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court will today hear a petition filed by farmers' bodies challenging the re-promulgation of contentious Ordinance on Land Acquisition.The plea seeks a directive to the Centre to quash the Ordinance as

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  Govt instituting rational framework for land acquisition: PM Modi

  Politics | April 13, 2015 6:50 IST

  Hannover: Under attack over contentious Land Ordinance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said the government was instituting a "rational framework" for acquisition of land without causing distress to farmers and other landowners."We are instituting a

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  Land Act passed under UPA was conspiracy against farmers: Arun Jaitley

  Politics | April 10, 2015 7:27 IST

  Bhopal: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday alleged that the Land Acquisition Law passed in 2013 under the UPA regime was a "conspiracy" to shun rural areas from development and render landless people jobless."With an

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  Farmers move SC against promulgation of ordinance on land

  India | April 09, 2015 23:21 IST

  New Delhi: Several farmers' organisations today approached the Supreme Court challenging the re-promulgated land ordinance as “unconstitutional” and ultra vires of the Constitution and terming it as “colourful exercise of power” by the executive usurping

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  'Mahabharata' will be fought over proposed Land Bill: Jairam Ramesh

  Politics | April 07, 2015 11:37 IST

  Bhubaneswar: Congress on Monday said another ‘Mahabharata' would be fought over proposed amendments in the land acquisition Act in which parties like BJD must prove their commitments towards farmers and tribals.“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is

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  Opposition misleading people on issue of tribal, forest land: PM Modi

  Politics | April 06, 2015 14:44 IST

  New Delhi: Amid a raging debate on the controversial land bill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused opposition parties of misleading people on the issue of tribal and forest land saying such a campaign will

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  Ready to face consequences on Land Bill: Venkaiah Naidu

  Politics | April 05, 2015 16:42 IST

  Hyderabad: Hardening its stance, the Centre today indicated that it would not allow further amendments to the controversial Land Bill and asserted that it is ready to face the "consequences" even as it acknowledged that

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  I was raised among the poor, can understand farmers' pain: PM Modi at Bengaluru rally

  Politics | April 03, 2015 20:39 IST

  New Delhi: At the rally held in Bengalauru today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he was raised among the poor so he understands farmers' pain. He took a jibe at opposition parties for opposing

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  Kejriwal to address AAP rally against land bill on April 22

  Politics | April 03, 2015 13:43 IST

  New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will address an AAP rally against the land Bill at Jantar Mantar and might also lead a march to Parliament on April 22.“It has been decided that he

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  BJP's national executive meet begins, Congress workers protest outside venue

  Politics | April 03, 2015 15:36 IST

  Bengaluru: The two-day meet of Bhartiya Janata Party's national executive committee began in Bengaluru this morning.The meet is being attended by BJP President Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley and other top leaders of

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  Land Bill to be top priority at BJP's first National Executive Meet

  Politics | April 03, 2015 10:01 IST

  Bengaluru: A day before BJP's two-day national executive meet, Land Bill became the center of discussion on Thursday while the party geared up for its first meeting of the office-bearers.The party has plans to make

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  Rahul Gandhi to return by April 19 for Congress rally against Land Bill

  Politics | March 30, 2015 20:56 IST

  New Delhi: Congress Vice-President and second-in-command Rahul Gandhi will be back in Delhi to address a rally against the Land Bill on April 19, party leader Digvijay Singh said today.Rahul Gandhi was missing from the