India News: NEW DELHI: The members of the Supreme Court-appointed committee will talk to the protesting farmers and suggest recommendations to resolve the deadloc.
Vibha Sharma
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 19
Ahead of the tenth round of talks between agitating farmers and union ministers, members of the Supreme Court-appointed committee to delibera
Successful protests against IIT-Goa, could be template for anti-coal agitation?
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Tue, Jan 19 2021 19:51 IST |
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The Goa government s decision to relent and finally announce the relocation the IIT-Goa campus from Melaulim village in North Goa, amid opposition from local villagers, may well serve as a template for popular opposition to three other central government projects, which have been in the crosshairs of the environmentalists and the political opposition, as well as some ruling Bharatiya Janata Party legislators.
Panaji, Jan 19 (IANS) Nothing succeeds like success.
The Goa government s decision to relent and finally announce the relocation the IIT-Goa campus from Melaulim village in North Goa, amid opposition from local villagers, may well serve as a template for popular opposition to three other central government projects, which have been in the crosshairs of the e
“All the members of this Committee are pro-government and had been justifying the laws of the government.”
“We never demanded from Supreme Court to form committee, government is behind all these.”
In fact, the pushback seemed intense enough for one of the four named to the committee – Bhupinder Singh Mann – to recuse himself. “I will always stand with my farmers and Punjab,” he said. Mann had also been expelled from his own farm union, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Mann), which renamed itself the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Punjab).
Other members of the committee claim they will carry out their task and begin speaking to the protesting farmers from January 19, though none of the farm unions have so far agreed to meet them.