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Lok Sabha adjourned for an hour following sloganeering by Opposition MPs
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): Lok Sabha on Tuesday was adjourned for an hour following an uproar in the House.
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Rajya Sabha passes the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): The Rajya Sabha passed the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill by a voice vote on Tuesday.
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We're protesting for farmers, labourers & country, will fight till tho
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): We are protesting on behalf of the farmers, workers, society and the country and we will continue till those who are selling the country are out of power, said Rajya Sabha MP Dola Sen on Tuesday.
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Congress calls meeting of its Lok Sabha MPs ahead of today's session
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): Congress has called a meeting of its Lok Sabha MPs before the commencement of the Lok Sabha session on Tuesday.
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Kejriwal, Sisodia laud suspended RS MPs for taking up farmers cause
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday lauded Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh and other suspended Rajya Sabha MPs, for "fighting for the farmers, regardless of the heat, mosquitoes and other inconv
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Opposition will boycott session till our demands are met: Ghulam Nabi Azad
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): We will boycott the monsoon session till the government brings another Bill which assures that the private players will not be able to purchase produce from the farmers below the MSP and our other demands are not met, said Leader of Opposition in the Ra
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Suspended MPs on sit-in protest, refuse tea from Rajya Sabha deputy chairm
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh arrived this with morning tea for the eight opposition members who had spent the night on the lawns of Parliament as part of their indefinite protest after being suspended yesterday over unruly scenes against farm b
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Odisha: 21 per cent increase seen in farmers' registrations for selling Kh
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], September 22 (ANI): The various primary agriculture cooperative societies in Odisha have witnessed an increase of 21 per cent farmers' registering for selling their Kharif paddy produce at the Minimum Support Price (MSP) system for the 2020-21 season.
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Centre's move to hike MSP of wheat 'inadequate': Sukhbir Singh Badal
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], September 22 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday said that the Centre's decision to hike Minimum Support Price (MSP) of wheat by Rs 50 per quintal was inadequate and is a "huge disappointment" for farmers.
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CPI-M urges President to send back agriculture bills
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 22 (ANI): The CPI-M on Monday accused the BJP-led government of "bulldozing legislations through the parliament violating all parliamentary procedures" and said it should withdraw agriculture bills in the interest of farmers and people's entitlements to food security
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Those opposing Agriculture Bills against prosperity of farmers: Amit Shah
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the political parties who are opposing the Agriculture Bills are against the prosperity of the farmers and the appropriate value of their produce.
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Agriculture bills black chapter against farmers, APMCs: Telangana Congress
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 21 (ANI): Congress leader Ponnam Prabhakar on Monday alleged that the Modi government has written "a black chapter against agriculture, farmers, farm labourers and Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs)" by bringing agriculture bills.
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