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Govt shows shocking insensitivity, arrogance towards farmers: Sonia Gandhi
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 22 (ANI): Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government over the ongoing farmers' agitation, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said the Centre has shown 'shocking insensitivity and arrogance' towards the farmers.
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Congress Working Committee meeting underway; economy, farmers agitation on
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 22 (ANI): Congress Working Committee (CWC), chaired by party interim President Sonia Gandhi, on Friday discussed prevailing economic conditions in the country and party's strategy for the upcoming Assembly polls.
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Centre ready to put new farm laws on hold for about 18 months: Tomar
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Wednesday that Centre is willing to put on hold new farm laws for one to one-and-a-half years and noted that the farmer unions have taken the proposal "very seriously".
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Farmers are more sensible than PM, says Rahul Gandhi amid ongoing agitatio
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): Intensifying his attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government over newly-enacted farm laws, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday claimed that "the government feels that farmers can be weary and fooled, but farmers are more sensible tha
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Punjab CM accuses government of oppressive tactics against protesting farm
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], January 18 (ANI): Condemning NIA notices "to several farmers and their supporters" in the midst of the anti-farm laws agitation, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday said "such arm-twisting tactics" would not weaken the resolve of the farmer
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NIA filing cases against those supporting farmers' protest, alleges farmer
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): Farmers unions protesting at the borders of the national capital on Sunday alleged that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has started to register cases against people who have lent their support to the agitation and said that they would fight it
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Farmers' union seeks Delhi police commissioner's nod to hold protest at Ra
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): A farmers' union has written to the Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava seeking permission to hold the farmers' agitation at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital.
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J-K Congress stages demonstration in support of protesting farmers in Jamm
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], January 15 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Congress Chief Ghulam Ahmed Mir and fellow party workers on Friday staged a demonstration in Jammu in support of the farmers' agitation going at the Delhi border against the farm laws.
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Congress to gehrao Raj Bhavans across country, Rahul Gandhi to lead protes
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New Delhi [India], January 15(ANI): Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is set to lead a march to the Governor House in the national capital on Friday, as part of the party's nationwide agitation to express solidarity with the ongoing farmers protest against the three new farm reform laws.
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'Not allowed to cross Singhu border', say auto drivers facing hardships du
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 14 (ANI): Amid the ongoing farmers' protest against the central laws, autorickshaw drivers are facing hardships due to the agitation as they are not allowed to cross the Singhu border to drop passengers ahead of the protest site.
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90 pc of farmers not in favour of continuing agitation after SC stay on fa
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 13 (ANI): Terming the Supreme Court's order staying the implementation of the three farm laws as "a historic step," the Bar Council Of India (BCI) has said that 90 per cent of "peaceful farmers" are not in favour of continuing the agitation.
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Farmers' agitation: Northern Railway cancels, divert, short-terminates tra
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 13 (ANI): In view of on-going farmers' agitation in Punjab, the railway has cancelled, short-terminated and diverted several trains for January 13 and 14.
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