Farmers protest outside leaders’ homes
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They demand their support to the Congress’ no-trust vote
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They demand their support to the Congress’ no-trust vote
Farmers, khap leaders, social activists and members of various employees’ and traders’ unions on Tuesday held demonstrations outside the residences of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Jannayak Janta Party MLAs and the Independents across Haryana and handed over memorandums demanding to support the no-confidence motion against the government on March 10.
A large number of protesters laid siege to the residence of Badhra MLA Naina Chautala, the mother of Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala, around noon, raising slogans and demanding to meet her. When no one turned up, the agitating farmers pasted a copy of the memorandum at the main gate to the legislator’s house demanding that she should support the no-confidence motion. Police personnel were also present in large numbers.
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Last-minute change in list of chief guests for R-Day functions in the State
The Haryana government on Monday announced a last-minute change in the Republic Day programme of Chief Minister Manohar Lal and several of his Cabinet colleagues reshuffling the districts where they were earlier scheduled to unfurl the national flag. Mr. Lal, earlier slated to preside over the Republic Day celebrations at Panipat, will now be the chief guest at Panchkula.
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Hisar, January 21
Farmers staged a demonstration outside the residence of Minister of State Anup Dhanak and demanded his resignation in Hisar town today.
The group of protesters under the banner of Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Majdoor Sangharsh Samiti marched to his residence in the town raising anti-government slogans.
Satbir Punia, a farmer leader leading the procession, said that Anoop Dhanak represents Uklana segment in Haryana Assembly which has overwhelming number of farmers and working class. “These communities gave support and respect to Dhanak and he rose to become a minister. But it is unfortunate that after becoming minister, he is not ready to listen to farmers,” he said.
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New dawn: Farmers burn copies of the new farm laws while celebrating Lohri at the Ghazipur border protest site in Delhi (Photo: ANI)
As the national capital settled in for its coldest winter in the past 15 years, it did little to thaw the tensions between the government and the protesting farm unions. However, in a dramatic intervention on January 12, the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramaniam suspended the implementation of the new farm laws and set up a four-member expert committee to hear the farm unions. But if they thought this would placate the agitating farmers, they were mistaken, as the farmers refused to appear before the expert committee, saying they would rather continue the dialogue with the Centre. They are also sticking to their demand of a complete rollback of the new Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection)