As the MP CM flagged off the 'Run for Unity' in Bhopal, organised to celebrate National Unity Day, he remembered how the freedom fighter got his title of 'Sardar' following his role in the Bardoli satyagraha'. During the event, the Chief Minister, along wit the guests and the runners took
The farmers' agitation led by Kadu entered its second day in Nagpur. Visuals showed police personnel trying to pacify the protestors who had blocked railway tracks and the Nagpur-Hyderabad National Highway (NH-44).
Justice Rajneesh Vyas passed the order while hearing a suo motu petition. The court noted that permission for the protest was granted only for 24 hours.
Lashing out at the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government, KTR questioned whether thrashing farmers protesting for urea was the real face of Rahul Gandhi's "Mohabbat ki Dukaan."
Members of the Tamil Nadu River and Tank Irrigation Farmers Association staged a protest near Rajarathinam Stadium in Egmore, Chennai, demanding immediate government action on crop damage compensation, agricultural budget implementation, and policy reforms.
"On March 19, the Punjab government called farmers for a meeting, and as soon as we came out of the meeting, we were arrested. Our morchas were attacked. The Punjab government has offended the dignity of farmers," Dallewal said in a self-made video.
Ahead of the meeting scheduled between farmers and the Central government in Chandigarh on May 4, farmer leaders have written a letter to Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, urging that the representative of the Punjab government should not be included in this meeting.
From Sheikhupura to Dera Ghazi Khan, demonstrators have staged sit-ins and rallies and faced clashes with police, demanding better compensation for their wheat harvest.
Through the protest, the participants will call for an end to corporate farming and the eviction of peasants from the lands they have been cultivating for generations.
Union Minister of State for Railways and Food Processing Industries Ravneet Singh Bittu on Sunday expressed his gratitude to veteran farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal for ending the fast at his request and hoped his gesture would create harmony and build confidence between the farmers and
Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal ended his indefinite hunger strike against the Central government on Sunday, and participated in the Mahapanchayat held in Fatehgarh Sahib.