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New Delhi: Farmers block a highway to mark 100 days of their ongoing protests against new farm laws, along the Delhi-Haryana border near New Delhi, Saturday, March 6, 2021.
Farmers are ready to stay put on Delhi borders to protest against three agri laws for the remaining three and half years of the Modi government s second term and the stir cannot be culled any which way the Centre tries, legendary farm leader Mahendra Singh Tikait s son Narendra Tikait says. Narendra, who does not hold any official position in Bharatiya Kisan Union, formed by his father in 1986, and mostly focusses on the family s farming activities but is as vocal on issues concerning farmers as his two elder brothers Naresh and Rakesh Tikait who are leading from the front in the agitation that has been continuing for more than 100 days.
Protesting Farmers Call For Bharat Bandh On March 26, Strike Against Rising Fuel Prices On March 15
The protesting farmers also said that they will observe ‘Mandi Bachao-Kheti Bachao’ day on March 19 and burn copies of new farm laws on March 28. Gaurav Tandon Outlook Web Bureau 2021-03-10T20:22:53+05:30 Protesting Farmers Call For Bharat Bandh On March 26, Strike Against Rising Fuel Prices On March 15 outlookindia.com 2021-03-10T20:28:23+05:30
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Protesting farmer unions have issued a call for a nation-wide strike on March 26, when their agitation against the Centre’s recent farm laws will complete four months. The strike will be effective from morning to evening, union leaders said.
Farmers Protest: Farmer leader Narendra Tikait says the agitation will continue
Farmers are ready to continue protests on the borders of Delhi, against the three agricultural laws, for the remaining three and half years of the Narendra Modi government s second term, said farmer leader Narendra Tikait. The protests cannot be culled he said. The farmers protest has been continuing for more than 100 days. Narendra Tikait does not hold any official position in the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), formed by his father, Mahendra Singh Tikait, in 1986. He mostly focuses on the family s farming activities but is as vocal on farmers issues as his two elder brothers, Naresh and Rakesh Tikait, who are leading from the front.
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Ghaziabad: Farmers block the KMP Expressway near Duhai to mark the 100th day of their ongoing agitation against Centre s farm reform laws, in Ghaziabad, Saturday, March 6, 2021.
The High Commission of India in London has condemned a debate among some British lawmakers on an e-petition over the right of peaceful protests and freedom of the press in India amid the ongoing farmersâ stir against three New Delhi laws on agricultural reform. The Commission damned the debate, held on Monday evening inside the British parliamentary premises, as âfalse assertionsâ in a âdistinctly one-sided discussionâ.
âWe deeply regret that rather than a balanced debate, false assertions without substantiation or facts were made, casting aspersions on the largest functioning democracy in the world and its institutions,â the commission said in a statement after the Monday evening debate on an e-petitio
Women Not So Invisible In Farm Law Protests
Women farmers take valuable tips from women’s day march to reach out to a wider audience at home PTI outlookindia.com 2021-03-09T19:58:58+05:30
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A day after celebrating Women’s Day at farmers’ protest sites, most of the ladies are back – or on way – home to attend to household and agricultural chores.
But for many of them, it was a hands-on experience and learning which they intend to share with others in villages or at block-level.
Thousands of women farmers had joined protests against the Centre’s farm laws at the national capital’s borders on Monday, March 8. They had taken leadership and managed the event that day, marking it as Mahila Kisan Diwas.