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Farmer bodies urge not to amend new agriculture laws
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Wed, Dec 23 2020 0:27 IST |
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New Delhi, Dec 23 : Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar said on Tuesday that a section of farmers have urged the government not to amend the new farm laws enacted by the Centre.
Two separate delegations of farmers representatives under the banners of Indian Farmers Union and Kisan Sangharsh Samiti met Tomar at Krishi Bhawan and extended their support to the government on new farm laws. Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Kailash Choudhary was also present during the meeting.
Reporters Without Orders Ep 146: Farmer protests
A reportersâ podcast about what made news and what shouldnât have.
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The conversation hits off with the bizarre news stories, from a fisherman finding the worldâs biggest blob of whale vomit worth 2.4 million pounds to a wife of a dead Patiala man receiving a âsample-collectedâ SMS on her husbandâs phone.
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report on ex-soldiers at the farmer protests denouncing the Naxal jibes at them by Union Minister Piyush Goyal. Last week, the minister had alleged, without evidence, that the ongoing protests against the new farm laws had been infiltrated by âNaxal and Maoist elementsâ. A section of the media too had claimed the protests had been âhijacked by anti-national forcesâ and âforeign powersâ. The most apt response to the allegations was from a 75-year-old former subedar of t