LIVE updates: Some UP farmer groups urge govt not to withdraw agri laws

Farmers' protest LIVE updates: Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lok Shakti) moved the SC today challenging the three new farm laws. Stay tuned for latest updates

3:53 PM

A delegation of 60 farmers meets Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar

3:25 PM

President should guide government to end farmer stalemate: Shashi Tharoor

Before submitting a memorandum of support to farmers' protest to President Ram Nath Kovind, Congress leader and MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said that the President has an important moral role in guiding the government to take steps towards resolving the stalemate.

 

"The stand of the party is well-known. We want the government to atone for their complete lack of consultation with the farmers before passing these bills by making a serious effort to address their concerns," Tharoor told ANI.

 

"I think the President has a very important moral role in encouraging and guiding the government and telling them not to stand on their legislative pride and prevent a resolution to the problem," he added. READ ON...

2:54 PM

Basketball player Satnam Singh joins farmers' protest at Singhu border

2:35 PM

Govt writes to agitating farmers, asks them to decide date and time for next round of talks

2:30 PM

Farmers' protest LIVE: Bharatiya Kisan Union moves SC challenging agri laws

Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lok Shakti) has moved the Supreme Court challenging the three new farm laws, against which various farmer unions are staging protest at several border points of Delhi, and sought impleadment in the matter pending in the apex court. In an application seeking impleadment in the pending petition, Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lok Shakti) has claimed that the new farm laws promote corporate interest and are not concerned with the interest of farmers.

 

The plea, filed through advocate A P Singh, alleged that these acts are unconstitutional and anti-farmer as it would dismantle the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) system intended to ensure fair prices for farm products.

 

The implementation of the acts in its current form will spell disaster for the farming community by opening a parallel market which is unregulated and gives enough place for exploitation of the Indian farmers, the application said.

1:45 PM

As farmers' protest continues, commuters suffer, forced to walk several kms every day

The ongoing farmers' protest on different borders of the national capital has disrupted daily lives of commuters as they are forced to walk for several kilometres every day before they reach either their destination or find other means of transportation to commute. Since the agitation, which began on November 26, 60-year-old Satish Mishra, who regularly takes the route through Singhu border, had to walk four kilometres daily to his office at 9 am.

 

"Bus drops passengers at Tikri Mor from where we all walk for at least three to four kilometres before we reach our destination. I board the bus 1.30 hours before my scheduled time to reach office on time as I have to walk for four kilometres. It is becoming difficult much more because of the winter," Mishra told ANI.

 

Like Mishra, several others can be found walking through entire protest stretch in a hurry to reach their destinations in the morning. However, many of their condition has worsened and developed severe joint pains.

 

1:22 PM

Rahul meets Prez over farm laws, Priyanka Gandhi detained during protest

Sharpening its attack on the government over the new three farm laws, the Congress on Thursday staged a strong protest outside the Congress headquarters here after they were prevented from marching towards Rashtrapati Bhawan.

 

Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and party MPs and leaders staged a sit-in protest outside their office and were detained by the Delhi Police for violating prohibitory orders. Read on...

1:00 PM

No democracy in India under the current regime, says Rahul Gandhi

11:56 AM

Delhi Police take Priyanka Gandhi and other Congress leaders into custody

10:10 AM

Rahul Gandhi will lead Congress MPs' protest march today

Rahul Gandhi will lead a demonstration today at 10:45 am from Vijay Chowk to Rashtrapati Bhavan with Congress MPs.

8:18 AM

Punjab Minister sits on hunger strike to express solidarity with farmers

Expressing solidarity with the Punjab farmers who are protesting against three agriculture laws, Punjab Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla sat on one-day hunger-strike on Wednesday in Sangrur.

 

Around 200 arhtiyas from Punjab also accompanied Singla in the hunger strike.

 

Singla said the agitation started by farmers has become "a genuine mass movement" and people were coming on their own to support it.

 

"Arhitiyas and farmers in Punjab share a strong bonding. Farmer unions have also given a call for hunger strike and we are offering our support," Singla told reporters.