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Lakhs gathering in poll-bound Bengal, farmers should not be maligned for s
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 18 (ANI): Slamming reports suggesting farmer gatherings as a spreader of COVID infections, farmer leader and Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) National President Naresh Tikait on Saturday questioned the political gatherings in the poll-bund West Bengal an
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Couple ties knot at farmers' protest site in MP's Rewa
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Rewa (Madhya Pradesh) [India], March 19 (ANI): In an unusual way to extending support to farmers' protest against the Centre's farm laws, a couple tied the knot on Thursday at an agitation site in Rewa.
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Farmers ready to sacrifice one crop but would not let movement weaken: Rak
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 19 (ANI): Farmers are ready to sacrifice one crop, but will not leave the protest sites and let the ongoing agitation weaken at any cost, said Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Friday.
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Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait teaches children at makeshift school at protes
Updated : 5 years, 1 month 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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Children learn alphabets, counting at makeshift pathshala amid farmers' pr
Updated : 5 years, 1 month 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 did not have legal electricity connections, police enforced the la
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 6 (ANI): Farmers did not have legal electricity connections at the protest sites and if police disconnected them, they were acting to enforce the law, said Union Power Minister RK Singh on Saturday.
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Congress slams govt for withdrawing water, electricity supply from farmer
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 6 (ANI): Congress General Secretary and Member of Parliament KC Venugopal on Saturday slammed the government for withdrawing water and electricity connections from the farmer protest sites.
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Centre's decision to put concrete walls at protest sites won't help: HD De
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) MP HD Devegowda on Thursday during Rajya Sabha session condemned the violence on Republic Day and said that the Centre's decision to put concrete walls at farmers' protest sites won't help.
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Many forced to defecate in open as toilets now difficult to reach, say far
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India] February 3 (ANI): Protesting farmers at Singhu border have said that they are facing a shortage of toilets after recent barricading near the protest site and many of them were being forced to answer the call of nature in the open.
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Farmers protest: Delhi govt issuing list of 155 people arrested from R-Day
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 3 (ANI): Stating that the issue of farmers missing from protest sites is a matter of "grave concern", Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that his government is issuing a list of 115 people who were arrested and currently locked up in various ja
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Build bridges, not walls: Rahul Gandhi slams Centre over heightened securi
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 2 (ANI): As security was beefed up at different borders of the national capital in light of the ongoing farmers' protest, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday advised the BJP-led central government to 'build bridges and not walls'.
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No point in opposition leaders seeking votes at protest sites, may raise t
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 31 (ANI): Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said there would be no point in opposition leaders seeking votes from farmers for their support to the agitation against the farm laws adding that they could raise the issue in parliament.
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