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Rakesh Tikait asserts farmer protest to continue for long
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 4 (ANI): Amid the ongoing protest against the new farm laws, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said the agitation will continue for long.
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Farmers' protest: Ghazipur border reopens, vehicular movement allowed from
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): Ghazipur border, which remained closed since January 26 following the Republic Day violence, was on Tuesday reopened for vehicular movement.
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Rajnath Singh graces wedding ceremony of doctor whose education he had fin
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 27 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday attended the wedding ceremony of Doctor Brijendra whose education he had financed when he was an impoverished and talented child years ago.
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Rakesh Tikait demands establishment of agri research centre in Parliament
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 24 (ANI): Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday demanded establishment of a agriculture research centre in the Parliament premises so that rates of crops can be determined.
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Farmers from UP villages to fast, send messages to PM every day from March
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 24 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh Kisan Mazdoor Morcha on Tuesday said it will launch a village-level agitation across the state from March 1 seeking withdrawal of the Centre's three farm laws and guarantee to purchase at the minimum support price (MSP).
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Protesting farmers installed CCTV cameras, toilets at Ghazipur border
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 17 (ANI): As the protest against the Centre's three new farm laws entered 84th day on Wednesday, with no breakthrough in the standoff between government and farmers in the sight, protesters at the Ghazipur border have installed CCTV cameras and tem
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Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait teaches children at makeshift school at protes
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 16 (ANI): Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday turned teacher to children attending a makeshift school at the farmers' protest site in Ghazipur.
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Mahatma Gandhi's granddaughter extends support to agitating farmers, says
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 14 (ANI): Tara Gandhi Bhattacharya, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, reached the Ghazipur border on Saturday to extend her support to the farmers agitating against the central farm laws and said that her visit is "apolitical".
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Rakesh Tikait warns farmers' protest will go on for indefinite period
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 12 (ANI): Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Friday said the ongoing farmers' protest will go on for indefinite period as there is no planning regarding the duration yet.
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Children learn alphabets, counting at makeshift pathshala amid farmers' pr
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 11 (ANI): Around 12 noon, a little far from the sound of speeches and patriotic songs at Ghazipur border, one can hear the voice of young children learning alphabets, poems or counting inside a makeshift "pathshala" in the middle of the protest site.
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Farmers' agitation: 'Kisan Kranti' memorial to be built at Ghazipur border
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India], February 9 (ANI): Amid the farmers' agitation against the new agricultural laws at Delhi borders, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) on Tuesday said that they will build a "Kisan Kranti" memorial at Ghazipur border in the memory of those farmers who died during the agitation
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