Farmer unions and opposition parties too had raised doubts over the composition of the panel, insisting that its members have been in favour of the three laws in the past. The panel is due to hold its first meeting on 19 January
LUDHIANA: Members of the Muslim community from Malerkotla town got a big water-proof tent installed at Tikri border for protesting farmers. They have also been running a langar sewa there.
Dr Naseer Akhter, member of the group, Sikh Muslim Sanjhan, which installed the tent, said, “We are thirty members, all of whom are Muslims from Malerkotla. For 40 days, we have been running the langar at Singhu border. We would send zarda chawal (sweet, cooked rice) to various places along the border. Around 15 to 20 days ago, we thought one can sleep hungry but it is difficult to sleep in such cold. So we decided to install a water-proof tent.”
Dushyant Chautala meets Narendra Modi
As per reports, Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, a day after he met Home minister Amit Shah with Manohar Lal Khattar. After an hour-long meeting with Shah, both Khattar and Chautala said they have discussed about the prevailing law and order situation in the state. There is no threat to the Haryana government and it will last its full five year term, Chautala hald told news agency
PTI on Tuesday.
Congress leader Siddaramaiah targets PM over farmers protest
Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah, in a series of tweets, said the Supreme Court s order to stay the new farm laws only reiterates the fact that the new laws are against the interests of farmers and accused prime minister Narendra Modi of deciding to turn a blind eye towards the plight of the farmers. Supreme Court has understood that farmers are right in their demands and hence have allowed farmers to contin
Farmers protest: The three-judge bench of CJI SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian pronounced the order. The bench said that the steps taken by the Centre to break the impasse have not yielded desired results