Artists make sculptures depicting farmers agitation, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi on Friday.
NEW DELHI: The protesting farmer unions and the Yavatmal district administration are on a collision course as the former are adamant on holding a meeting in this Maharashtra town despite denial of permission to do so. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police said on Friday that the violence during the tractor rally of the farmers in the national capital on Republic Day was not due to intelligence failure.
Here are the key developments of the day:
1. Even as the district administration in Maharashtra s Yavatmal has denied permission to the February 20 Maha Panchayat of farmer leader Rakesh Tikait due to rising COVID-19 cases, its organiser Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) said it is firm on holding the public meeting there. The SKM said that if Tikait and other leaders are stopped in Yavatmal, then a sit-in protest would be held. The administration in Yavatmal district on Thursday ordered curbs on ga
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Hitting out at the Centre over the new agriculture legislations, Samyukta Kisan Murcha, an umbrella organisation of various protesting farm unions alleged that the government is not making any efforts to resume talks with the protesting farmers, despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi having said that the Centre was “just a phone call away”.
Centre s new laws will only benefit capitalists : Chaduni
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Gurugram, Jan 31 : Haryana Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni on Sunday visited the Gurugram s protest site to extend his support to the ongoing farmers agitation.
Addressing the protesters, Chaduni said: Today the power is vested in the capitalists and so the new legislations are being made to benefit them.
The BKU leader added that the Centre has passed an agri business law and not of farming. The central government has no right to make farm laws. The farmer s agitation will not end till the three new agriculture laws are repealed. These farm legislations will only benefit the capitalists, Chaduni said.
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Lucknow: Farmers, under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union, during their march to Raj Bhavan to present a memorandum to UP Governor against Centre s farm reform laws, in Lucknow, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021.
Protesting farmer leaders on Saturday remained firm on their demand of a complete repeal of the three contentious farm laws and said their immediate focus is on the January 26 tractor parade. The union leaders said the next course of action will be decided only after the tractor parade. Farmer leaders held a marathon meeting on Saturday to reconsider the government s proposal to put the legislations on hold for 18 months, but no consensus could be reached.
Firm on demand of repealing farm laws, farmers say decision on future action after tractor parade
Farmer leaders held a marathon meeting on Saturday to reconsider the government s proposal to put the legislations on hold for 18 months, but no consensus could be reached.
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Farmers delegation coming out after the meeting with Union Agricultural minister Narendra singh Tomar at Vigyan bhawan in New Delhi. (Photo| Parveen Negi, EPS) By PTI
NEW DELHI: Protesting farmer leaders on Saturday remained firm on their demand of a complete repeal of the three contentious farm laws, and said their immediate focus is on the January 26 tractor parade.