LIVE: Farmer leaders plan hunger strike on Dec 14, escalating protests

In a bid to intensify the ongoing protests at Delhi borders, farmers will block the Delhi-Jaipur road today. Stay tuned for latest updates on farmers' protest

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Concerned about farmers protesting in cold weather amid Covid-19 pandemic: Agriculture Minister

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No provision in farm laws for element of compulsion on any farmer: Union Minister Piyush Goyal

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Farmers' Protest LIVE: Union Ministers addressing the media

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No provision for any lease or agreement over farmers' land: Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar

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Ready for open-minded discussions with farmers on provisions: Narendra Singh Tomar

Government ready to consider with open mind any provision in new laws where farmers have issues, remove all their apprehensions: Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar

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Farmers' Protest LIVE updates: Reforms help farmers sell produce freely, says govt

Reforms encourage farmers to sell their produce freely. The government wanted to liberate the farmers of the shackles of mandi so that they could sell their produce anywhere, to anyone, at his own price: Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar

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Farmers' Protest LIVE updates: Reforms help farmers sell produce freely, says govt

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LIVE: Farm laws don't affect APMCs or MSP, says Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar

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Wanted to liberate farmers of shackles of mandi: Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar

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Modi govt introduced many reforms in six years; it ended perennial scarcity for urea in India: Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar

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Violent attacks increasing in West Bengal: Narendra Singh Tomar on attack on BJP President J P Nadda's envoy

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We condemn this attack, says Narendra Singh Tomar after stone pelting on J P Nadda's convoy in West Bengal

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Farmers' Protest LIVE: Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar addresses the media

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Farmers' protest on new agri laws continues for 15th day around Delhi

The agitation by farmers camping on the Delhi borders since November 26 to demand repeal of the new agricultural laws continued for the 15th day on Thursday, with peasant leaders adamant on intensifying the protests further. After rejecting the central government's proposal to amend the new laws, the parleys of farmer leaders with the Centre seem derailed at the moment and no new initiative is forthcoming in this direction.

 

Farmer leaders sitting on a dharna on the Singhu border on the Delhi-Ambala route said that their protest will last until the Centre withdrew all three agricultural laws.

 

Farmer leader Gurvinder Singh Kum Kalan, associated with the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lakhowal), told IANS: "Our movement will continue till the government withdraws the new laws. Our leaders have announced the closure of all major roads and highways towards Delhi and a protest demonstration across the country on December 14." READ ON...

 

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Modi govt sensitive about farmers' demands: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Amid the ongoing protests against three new farm laws, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday said the Modi government was "sensitive" about the demands made by farmers and has addressed their main concerns in a "transparent" manner. He also said that most of the farmers were "satisfied" with the steps taken by the central government, and added that their interests were "safe and secure" in its hands.

 

"The government is completely sensitive about the demands of farmers. That is why it has addressed their main concerns effectively and in a transparent manner. Most of the farmers are satisfied," Naqvi told PTI.

 

Without naming the opposition parties, which have been targeting the BJP government over the farmers' stir, he said, "Unfortunately, defeated dynastic forces are trying to hijack democracy by taking a destructive path." The Minority Affairs minister also accused the opposition parties of confusing farmers for their own political gains.