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Congress ups the ante, announces nationwide protest against farm bills

This was decided at a meeting of Congress general secretaries and state in-charges, the first physical meeting held by the party at its 24 Akbar Road headquarters here since Covid outbreak

Farmers in Punjab and Haryana are deeply afraid the new legislation will be the first step to whittle away the system of MSP and procurement by the Food Corporation of India
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Farmers in Punjab and Haryana are deeply afraid the new legislation will be the first step to whittle away the system of MSP and procurement by the Food Corporation of India

Press Trust of India
Upping the ante on the farm bills issue, the Congress on Monday announced a massive people's movement which would include protest marches, agitations and collecting two crore farmers' signatures for a memorandum against the legislations to be submitted to President Ram Nath Kovind.

This was decided at a meeting of Congress general secretaries and state in-charges, the first physical meeting held by the party at its 24 Akbar Road headquarters here since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A resolution hitting out at the three farm bills -- the Farmer's Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, the

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