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  Police book Tikait, many other farmer leaders Farmers Protest:  A day after the tractor parade to Delhi spiralled into chaos and violence, farmer unions on Wednesday cancelled their planned foot march to Parliament on February 1 when the Budget would be presented in the House. Farmers protesting the new farm laws would instead hold public meetings and a hunger strike on January 30, on Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary. The Delhi police, on the other hand, have booked farmer leader Rakesh Tikait and 36 others, and also detained around 200 people in connection with incidents of violence and vandalism in various parts of Delhi, including at Red Fort. They have also filed 25 FIRs naming activists Yogendra Yadav, Darshan Pal, Gurnam Singh Chaduni, and others. FIRs were filed under various sections of the IPC, including 147, 148 (related to rioting), 307 (attempt to murder) and 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy). Two farmer unions — the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Bhanu) and the...

  Farmers’ protest descended into chaos as they used tractors to pull apart barricades, prompting the police to lathi-charge and fire tear gas. Punjab and Haryana on high alert The farmer groups, protesting along Delhi’s borders against the three farm laws, have adopted a wait-and-watch stand on the violent protests inside the Capital on Republic Day, saying they will dwell into the events once the full picture emerges. However, most farmer leaders condemned the violence and blamed it on miscreants present among the protesters. Some said a stand will be taken once all the leaders come back from their sites and discuss the development. farmers’ protests, police, tear gasA police person fires tear-gas as farmers break barricades near Akshardham Ashish Mittal, general secretary of the All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS), one of the groups participating in the protest, said, “The route given for the tractor parade was hardly touching Delhi, and therefore, unacceptable to many of us. ...

  Included in the four-member committee set-up by the Supreme Court to hold talks with the farmers agitating over the new farm laws, Anil Ghanwat said that “protesting farmers will get justice” Included in the four-member committee set-up by the Supreme Court to hold talks with the farmers agitating over the new farm laws, Anil Ghanwat on Tuesday said that “protesting farmers will get justice.” The Supreme Court on January 12 stayed the implementation of three farm laws and tasked the committee of experts to listen to grievances of the farmers on the farm laws and the views of the government and submit its report to the court within two months. Anil Ghanwat, president of the Shetkari Sanghatana, a Maharashtra-based  farmer organisation  told ANI, “This movement should stop somewhere and a law should be made in the interest of farmers. First we need to listen to farmers, if they had some misconception about Minimum Support Price (MSP) and Agricultural Produce Market Commit...

  Farmers demonstrating against the Centre’s new agri laws on Monday performed yoga on the Delhi-Noida Link Road at the Chilla border where they have been camping for 28 days now Farmers demonstrating against the Centre’s new agri laws on Monday performed yoga on the Delhi-Noida Link Road at the Chilla border where they have been camping for 28 days now. The road remained closed for Noida to Delhi movement but was open for commuters travelling from Delhi to Noida, according to a police official. At the Dalit Prerna Sthal, farmers belonging to BKU (Lok Shakti) and hailing from various districts of western Uttar Pradesh continued their agitation and submitted a memorandum of their demands addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration. “The memorandum has been submitted to Additional District Magistrate Diwakar Singh and mentions the demands of our farmers’ union including the withdrawal of the three new farm laws, legislation on minimum s...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address farmers’ conferences in Madhya Pradesh through video conferencing on Friday Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address farmers’ conferences in Madhya Pradesh through video conferencing on Friday. On December 16, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar addressed the ‘Kisan Sammelan’ in Gwalior. On Thursday, the Prime Minister appreciated Tomar for “attempting to have a polite dialogue” with the farmers through an open letter, requesting them to read it. “Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has expressed his feelings by writing a letter to the farmer brothers and sisters, attempting to have a polite dialogue. I request all the  Farmers Protest  to read it. The countrymen are also urged that they should extend it to as many people as possible,” PM Modi had tweeted. Amid protests on Delhi borders against the new farm laws, Tomar wrote an open letter to the farmers, saying “misunderstanding has been created among some farmer un...

A large number of farmers have expressed support for the farm bills, while a protest is ongoing against the reforms, said Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar A large number of farmers have expressed support for the farm bills, while a protest is ongoing against the reforms, said Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. “While there is a protest against reforms, lakhs of farmers are also gathering to express support for bills. Today, thousands of farmers gathered in Gwalior for it,” said Tomar while addressing an ASSOCHAM session via video conferencing on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Tomar told a gathering of farmers in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday, even as the  farmers’ protest  in and around Delhi continued that, it is the Narendra Modi government, which followed the recommendations of Swaminathan Commission and declared Minimum Support Price (MSP) for various farm produces by adding 50 per cent profit on the cost of the farmer. “The Swaminathan Committee said tha...

  The Centre invited agitating farmer unions for talks on Dec 1, two days ahead of a scheduled meeting. At the same time, PM Modi said the protests are based on creating doubts through misinformation The Centre on Monday night invited agitating farmer unions for talks on December 1, two days ahead of a scheduled meeting, as their stir against the new agri-marketing laws appeared to intensify despite a strong defence of the legislation by the government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi who accused the opposition of playing tricks on farmers again through misinformation. The development came a day after the protesting farmers rejected the Centre’s offer to start talks as soon as they move to Burari and continued to stay put Singhu and Tikri borders of the national capital. “Keeping in view the cold and COVID-19, we have invited leaders of  farmer unions  for discussion much before the scheduled December 3 meeting,” Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told PTI and urge...