LIVE: BJP MP Mast claims farmers' protests backed by anti-India elements
The farm unions representing tens of thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, who have launched a mass agitation on the borders of the national capital, are demanding that the government scrap three laws approved by Parliament in September.
The farmers’ protest against the three contentious bills entered day 52 on Sunday. In an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court on Saturday the Bhartiya Kisan Union has urged the Supreme Court to remove the three members of a panel constituted by the top court to resolve the impasse between the protesting farmers and the Union government over the new farm laws.
The union has requested appointment of a former Supreme Court judge along with farm leaders of protesting farmer unions to the panel.
The ninth round of discussions between the government and farm unions on Friday ended in a deadlock with the next round set for January 19. During the meeting, union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar urged the farmers to be flexible and asserted that the government has been accommodative and has already accepted several demands. Like several earlier rounds of discussions, the farm unions demanded that the government commit to complete rollback of the laws.
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- Jan 17, 2021 11:00 PM IST
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- Jan 17, 2021 09:16 PM IST
BJP MP Virendra Singh Mast says protests were backed by anit-national elements
BJP MP Virendra Singh Mast said that there were anti-national powers who were backing the protests against the farm laws. "Some anti-national powers are active behind the farmers, who are protesting against the farm laws. The protesting farmers do not have faith in the judiciary and the executive," Mast was quoted as saying by PTI.
- Jan 17, 2021 08:55 PM IST
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- Jan 17, 2021 08:53 PM IST
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- Jan 17, 2021 07:48 PM IST
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The agriculture minister on Sunday said that farmers should come for a clause by clause discussion on issues related to farm laws.
- Jan 17, 2021 06:14 PM IST
Farmer unions allege that NIA filing cases against those supporting the ongoing protest against agri laws
NIA has started to register cases against those who are a part of the farmers' movement or those who have lent their support to it. All farmers' unions condemn this. We will fight this in every possible way: Krantikari Kisan Union chief Darshan Pal.
- Jan 17, 2021 05:42 PM IST
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- Jan 17, 2021 03:01 PM IST
I think agitation will continue: Rakesh Tikait, Spokesperson Bhartiya Kisan Union
If a few lakh farmers are camping at the borders of Delhi, why is the government not repealing the farm laws? I think the agitation will continue: Rakesh Tikait, Spokesperson Bhartiya Kisan Union in Nagpur.
- Jan 17, 2021 02:13 PM IST
Farmers leave from Ludhiana for Delhi to participate in a tractor march
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"We will organise a tractor rally in the national capital on January 26. There will be around 1 lakh tractors in the rally," says a farmer
- Jan 17, 2021 01:38 PM IST
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- Jan 17, 2021 01:32 PM IST
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- Jan 17, 2021 01:12 PM IST
Union agriculture minister Tomar says proposal sent to farmer unions on mandis, registration
Union Agriculture Minister NS Tomar said, "We had sent a proposal to farmer unions in which we agreed to address their apprehensions regarding mandis, traders' registration and others. Govt also agreed to discuss laws on stubble burning & electricity but unions only want repeal of the laws."
- Jan 17, 2021 11:16 AM IST
All India Kisan Sabha distances itself from proposal to reconstitute SC panel on farm laws
Distancing himself and his union from the proposal to reconstitute the Supreme Court's committee on farm laws All India Kisan Sabha's General Secretary, Hannan Mollah, on Sunday said the proposal was not his organisation's idea, and it has not presented any suggestions to the court. "Our joint farmer unions under the ages of All India Kisan Sangarsh Coordination Committee never decided like that (proposal to reconstitute the Supreme Court's committee and replace members with neutral views). We have not gone to the court, nor given such new suggestion. This is not our idea," Mollah told ANI.
- Jan 17, 2021 10:03 AM IST
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- Jan 17, 2021 09:33 AM IST
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Citing NITI Aayog's rejection of activist Anjali Bhardwaj's Right to Information Act (RTI) request regarding the information on farm laws, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday slammed the government body for the delayed actions. In a series of tweets, Chidambaram quoted Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and called government actions "curiouser and curiouser" (stranger).
- Jan 17, 2021 09:19 AM IST
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