Farmer Protests: Farmers Desert Shahjahanpur Protest Site On Delhi - Jaipur Highway
A farmer protest site (@smitaprakash/Twitter)
As a large number of the protesters returned home to harvest the wheat and mustard crops, the site of the farmersâ protest near Shahjahanpur on the Delhi-Jaipur highway looks deserted.
Many of the hundreds of huts erected on the highway are empty. There are only a handful of people in the area, reports
The Times of India.
âThe Samyukta Kisan Morcha has allowed people to go back to their villages, though most will be back in the next couple of weeks after the harvest is done,â said Gurdar Singh from Hanumangarh district in Rajasthan.
After 100 days of protest, farmers reiterate agri laws must be repealed
Protesting farmers Saturday blocked the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway to mark the completion of 100 days
Saturday March 6, 2021 3:22 PM, IANS
New Delhi: On completion of 100 days of the farmers stir, Punjab s Balbir Singh Rajewal on Saturday said the farmers are ready for the next round of dialogue with the Central government, but they will not accept the three contentious farm laws with modifications.
Speaking from the Western Peripheral Expressway in Kundli in Haryana, where the farmers organised a blockade from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in a bid to intensify their protest, Rajewal said this protest is just a symbolic one against the government on these farm laws and it will become bigger .
Protest Against Farm Laws: Farmers in 3 UP villages stop milk supply
The dairy farmers have also announced that from March 6, they will sell milk at Rs 100 per litre
Tuesday March 2, 2021 9:35 AM, IANS
Amroha (Uttar Pradesh): In an unexpected development, dairy farmers in three villages in Amroha district have stopped supply of milk to the cooperative societies to express their solidarity with the farmers movement.
The dairy farmers have also announced that from March 6, they will sell milk at Rs 100 per litre. At present, their supply is sold at Rs 35 per litre.
State president of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) youth wing, Digambar Singh, said:
However, if through positive dialogue, any amendment in these laws is required, then the Union government will always be ready for it, the chief minister added
The question was asked by Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and two other members. Farmers participating in the ongoing protests against newly enacted three agriculture laws were not summoned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the government told Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been protesting at Delhi borders for more than two months, demanding a complete repeal of three farm laws enacted in September 2020.
“No sir,” Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy said in a written reply to a query whether the NIA summoned farmers, participating in the ongoing farmers’ protests. NIA probes terror related crimes. The question was asked by Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and two other members.