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Tikait takes dig at Opposition parties over farmers' ongoing agitation
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): Taking a dig at the Opposition parties, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said farmers may not have started the agitation if there was strong Opposition parties in the country.
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Delhi Police serves jawans, kisans amid pandemic, intense cold weather con
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and shivering cold, Delhi Police has been serving relentlessly day and night to maintain the law and order during the ongoing farmers' agitation at Delhi borders.
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Urdu Bulletin: Farmers' agitation, Maharashtra power tussle covered promin
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): The ongoing farmers' protest issue has been the prime focus in today's various Urdu publications. Most newspapers have also carried the news of Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurating country's first-ever driverless metro.
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Farmers' stir: Western Railways diverts trains in Punjab again
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 29 (ANI): Amid farmers' agitation in Punjab against the three recently enacted farm Acts, Western Railway diverted a few trains in the state.
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Mobile tower vandalised in Moga, Punjab Police denies farmers' involvement
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moga (Punjab) [India], December 28 (ANI): The locals of Ekta Nagar near Moga vandalised a mobile tower on Sunday night, allegedly in support of farmers protesting against centre's farm laws. Punjab Police stated that the connection has been restored at the mobile tower and added that the far
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Punjab teacher cycles 225 km to join farmers' protest at Tikri border
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Manoj Kumar, who is employed as a teacher in a government school in Punjab's Sangrur district, cycled 225 kilometres to reach Delhi's Tikri border on Monday to express solidarity with the farmers who have been protesting the agricultural laws for over a m
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Manmohan Singh, Sharad Pawar wanted to implement farm laws but could not s
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday said that even former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Nationalist Congress Party chief Shard Pawar wanted to implement reforms in the agriculture sector but were unable to do so due to external "pressure an
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BJP not targeting Rahul Gandhi as 'people have already rejected him': V Mu
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Reacting sharply to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Italy visit amid the farmers' protest and a day before the party's foundation day on Monday, Union Minister V Muraleedharan said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not targeting the Wayanad MP as 'peopl
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Leaders of around 25 farmer organisations meet Tomar, support new farm law
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Leaders of around 25 farmer organisations on Monday met and handed over to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar a letter in support of the new agriculture laws.
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'BJP is indulging in low-level politics': Congress defends Rahul Gandhi's
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Defending senior leader Rahul Gandhi on his foreign visit ahead of the party's Foundation Day, Congress on Monday said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is indulging in "low-level politics".
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Congress observes 136th Foundation Day, slams Centre over farmers' protest
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi/ Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], December 28 (ANI): Indian National Congress (INC), the oldest political party of the country observed its 136th Foundation Day on Monday.
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slams Centre, demands repeal of new farm laws
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday hit out at the Centre and demanded that the Union government should listen to protesting farmers and take back the new farm laws.
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