Farmers Protest December 26: Centre accepts proposal for next round of talks on Dec 29
22:33 PM IST: The Kerala Assembly is likely to hold a special session on December 31 to discuss and pass a resolution against the Centre s contentious farm laws. Sources tell India Today that Governor Arif Mohammed Khan could give his assent for the session by Monday.
(Inputs from PS Gopikrishnan Unnithan)
22:02 PM IST: The central government has accepted the proposal by Sanyukt Kisan Morcha to hold the next round of talks over the farm laws at 11 am on December 29, sources told India Today.
(Inputs from Himanshu Mishra)
20:45 PM IST: Farmers Protest LIVE Updates: On Saturday, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said he received an anonymous death threat. A complaint has been filed in this regard under relevant sections of the IPC at Ghaziabad s Kaushambhi police station.
New agri laws to benefit farmers, stress BJP’s Fadnavis and Patil
ByPrachee KulkarniPrachee Kulkarni / Updated: Dec 26, 2020, 06:00 IST
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senior leaders held rallies near Pune in the wake of PM’s farmers’ outreach exercise on Friday
In the wake of the ongoing farmers’ agitations that have sent shock waves along the nation’s power corridors in the country’s capital, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had organised rallies at 5,000 different places across Maharashtra to interact with farmers. The events were held as a part of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s farmers’ outreach programme that took place on Friday to release a sum of Rs 18,000 crore as the next instalment under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to over nine crore farmers. While the PM’s speech was streamed live at these events, prominent faces from the BJP attended the meetings held at various villages and took the opportunity to delineate the benefits they feel the ne
Protests an Opposition ploy, says PM Modi, signals no yield on demand for repeal
“Why do you adopt a dogali (doublespeak) policy? What kind of politics are they doing in which there is no logic, no facts? Make false accusations and spread rumours to scare our farmers. Sometimes, naive farmers get misled by you,” the Prime Minister said. Updated: December 26, 2020 8:17:09 am
Slamming the Opposition for what he called its “dogali” (doublespeak) policy over the new farm laws, Modi said the government is ready to hold talks in the interest of farmers, but it will be on “issues, logic and facts”.
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