Farmers protesting against three Central farm laws since last November will today begin a Kisan Sansad at the national capital's Jantar Mantar. The agitation will be held in groups of 200 every day while Parliament is in session, they said.
The Delhi Police on Wednesday gave permission to farmers to stage demonstrations at Jantar Mantar demanding scrapping of the Agri laws during the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament, official sources said. They said farmers will travel to Jantar Mantar from the Singhu border in buses with police escort.
It was decided that the Delhi government's lawyers will be public prosecutors in court matters related to the farmers' agitation.
The deceased, Mukesh, reportedly told his brother and a villager that he had been drinking with four men who claimed to be part of the farmers' protest and they set him on fire.
In an exclusive conversation with IndiaTV, Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij spoke on the death of a 42-year-old man who died of burn injuries after four men allegedly sprinkled some inflammable material on him and set him ablaze at Tikri protest site.
Farmers under the aegis of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee protested against Punjab government in Guruwali Village, Amritsar over power shortage issue during paddy sowing season.
The protest against new Farm Laws chugs on, despite media neglect, fears of pandemic outbreak and periodic threats from an intransigent government.
Farmers protesting against the Centre's three farm laws in the national capital, will be celebrating May 1st as Mazdoor Kisan Ekta Diwas.
Bhartiya Kisaan Union Spokesperson and Leader Rakesh Tikait recently got his vaccination done at a hospital near the Delhi-UP border.
Niti Aayog Member Ramesh Chand on Sunday said the target of doubling farmers' income by 2022 will not be fulfilled if the three new farm laws are not implemented immediately.
A BJP MLA in Punjab was allegedly thrashed and his clothes torn by a group of farmers at Malout in Muktsar district on Saturday, police said
The Ghazipur border (Delhi-UP border), which was closed due to farmers' protest, reopened for traffic movement on Monday.
When Naresh Tikait, the national president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, reached the Ghazipur border to meet farmers agitating against the three farm laws on Tuesday, he was given a traditional welcome with drum beats.
Protests have been continuing for nearly three months on Delhi's borders against the new farm laws.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' in Rajasthan on Friday over farmers' protest against Farm laws.
Farmer unions agitating against the three agri laws on Monday asked the government to fix a date for the next round of talks, soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged them to end their stir and invited them to resume the dialogue.
It has been over two months since the farmers have been protesting at Delhi's borders against the three farm laws enacted by the Centre.
The Internet has been snapped at Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri protest sites to "maintain public safety and for averting public emergency".
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Deputy Director-General A. K. Singh on Monday said the new agriculture laws will help farmers to increase their income in a big way.
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