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"Electoral compulsions...": Swami Prasad Maurya on Bharat Ratna awardees
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
"I welcome the act of honouring farmer leader Chaudhury Charan Singh, former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and eminent scientist MS Swaminathan with the Bharat Ratna though the Bharatiya Janata Party honoured them due to electoral compulsion," Maurya said, speaking to ANI on Saturday.
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"Happy that farmer leader has been awarded Bharat Ratna...": Akhilesh Yada
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
"I would like to congratulate you and all the farmers. Yesterday, the news was something else. Today, we received such good news. What can be better than this?.... Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) had installed his statue in front of this Vidhan Sabha...We are happy that a farmer leader has been
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"Honour to farmers of country": UP CM Yogi on Chaudhary Charan Singh to be
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
While speaking to ANI, CM Yogi said, "Former Prime Minister and farmer leader Chaudhary Charan Singh being honoured with Bharat Ratna is a welcome move. This is the honour of crores of farmers in the country. This is even more special for UP as Chaudhary Charan Singh also served as the chief
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Farmer protest: Punjab CM claims breakthrough in talks but Delhi march sti
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Nityanand Rai, and Arjun Munda held a meeting with farmer leaders in Chandigarh on Thursday in connection with the ongoing protest to push for a host of demands.
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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah promises to resolve problems of farmers, workers
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah held a long discussion with a delegation of farmer leaders of the Samyuktha Horata-Karnataka Forum led by farmers, Dalits, labourers, students, and planning and women's organisations and made several important announcements to solve the problems of the farmers and
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BKU leader Rakesh Tikait meets family of jailed AAP leader Sanjay Singh
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Farmer leader and national spokesperson of Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) Rakesh Tikait visited the residence of AAP MP Sanjay Singh, met his family members, and extended his indirect support to the jailed MP.
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Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait meets Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
National farmer leaders led by Chukki Nanjundaswamy and Rakesh Tikait, of Samyukta Kisan Morcha met Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday in Bengaluru and discussed various farmer issues.
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"Section 307 should be imposed on police": Farmer leader on death of 1 per
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
He said, "It's the fault of the police administration. We were protesting peacefully for our demands. Section 307 should be imposed on police as they did not perform their duty. No one can stop our voices."
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Farmers ending protest as Haryana govt agreed to pay MSP for sunflower see
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"We are ending our protest. The blocked roads will be opened today," Tikait said.
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Govt agrees to increase minimum price for sunflower crops: Haryana Farmer
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had on Saturday released Rs 29.13 crore as interim compensation to 8,528 farmers for sunflowers grown on 36,414 acres.
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Govt of India must have made such attempts: Rakesh Tikait on Dorsey's "pre
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"We had information that the kind of reach on Facebook and Twitter that was expected on farmers' protest, was not coming. They used to try to stop it at their level. The Head (former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey) has said this clearly now. But such companies don't come under anyone's pressu
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"Release detained farmers, buy sunflower seeds at MSP": Farmer leader Rake
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"We have only two demands, release the farmers who were detained and start purchasing sunflower seeds at MSP. We are ready to hold discussions with the government," Tikait said. Farmers and their supporters from Punjab and Haryana were seen coming out on streets in large numbers on their
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