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India News: Swami Prasad Maurya, former BSP member, resigns from Samajwadi Party and UP legislative council due to ideological differences. Plans to float separat

UNION — Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to a possible hostage situation outside of Union on Feb. 12.

Authorities said the tanks were stolen from a local hardware store Saturday night.

Delhi Chalo March: The Cotton Corporation of India is poised to start the procurement of cotton from farmers at the MSP for a significant duration of five years, subject to the formalisation of a contractual agreement.

The three specific reasons why the BJP is more confident this time are: the Ram mandir effect; Jat leader Jayant Chaudhary-led Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) joining hands with the saffron party; and the conferring of Bharat Ratna to Charan Singh, the late Jat patriarch of Western Uttar Pradesh

Senior Samajwadi Party leader Salim Sherwani resigns, expressing growing alienation of Muslims from SP. He questions the party's commitment to the PDA

Farmers protest latest: They, however, said that the Delhi Chalo march could resume on February 21 if all the issues are not resolved.

Sanghnomics: Bharatiya Kisan Sangh believes that organisations fighting in the interest of farmers should find solutions to the problems of the farmers with harmony. The farmer has the right to get remunerative price on the basis of cost and he must get it. But BKS is worried that the so-called farm leaders with political intentions who produce chaotic consequences are arousing negative feelings against farmers

The Delhi Chalo agitation, which enters its sixth day on February 19, also involves farmers advocating for the implementation of the Swaminathan Commissions recommendations, pension for farmers and farm laborers, and the withdrawal of police cases

One option is that when the harvest is sold to private parties below the MSP, the state would have a legal duty to pay the farmer the difference as cash, directly into their bank accounts. In case traders band together to underpay farmers who would bargain less because New Delhi would pick up a part of the tab, farm producers’ organisations acting as buyers of last resort could check the collusion problem