Much as in Jonathan Swift’s parable Gulliver’s Travels, the protesting farmer at the Delhi border has come to resemble Gulliver. Indeed, the gallant of modern Indian myths, the ‘annadata’ has little room left to manoeuvre.
Read more about Nothing short of repeal of farm laws will resolve crisis: Punjab cabinet on Business Standard. The Punjab cabinet asserted that nothing short of a repeal of the Centre s three new farm laws would break the deadlock
A day before the government s eighth round of talks with protesting farm unions, SAD leader and former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said the Centre has lost the trust of the entire farming community and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should directly talk to agitating farmers. Expressing her anguish over the pain of farmers, Badal, leader of the ruling BJP s erstwhile ally, said, It is strange that farmers are spending nights in open during the chilling winters and even then their demands are falling on deaf ears. In an interview to PTI, Badal who resigned from Union Cabinet in September last year when the three farm bills were being passed in Lok Sabha, said what farmers have gone through in last six-seven weeks, is the same what she went through when she was a Union Minister.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal (File photo)
NEW DELHI: A day before the government s eighth round of talks with protesting farm unions, SAD leader and former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said the Centre has lost the trust of the entire farming community and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should directly talk to the agitating farmers.
Harsimrat, whose party parted ways with the BJP over the farm laws, expressed her anguish over the pain of farmers and said, It is strange that farmers are spending nights in open during the chilling winters and even then their demands are falling on deaf ears.
In an interview to PTI, Badal who resigned from Union Cabinet in September last year when the three farm bills were being passed in Lok Sabha, said what farmers have gone through in last six-seven weeks, is the same what she went through when she was a Union minister.
›PM should talk directly to protesting farmers; Govt has lost trust of entire farming community: Harsimrat Kaur Badal
PM should talk directly to protesting farmers; Govt has lost trust of entire farming community: Harsimrat Kaur Badal
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PM should talk directly to protesting farmers; Govt has lost trust of entire farming community: Harsimrat Kaur BadalPTI
Last Updated: Jan 07, 2021, 07:55 PM IST
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Expressing her anguish over the pain of farmers, Badal, leader of the ruling BJP s erstwhile ally, said, It is strange that farmers are spending nights in open during the chilling winters and even then their demands are falling on deaf ears.