Congress stages protest march in Chandigarh, Shimla
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Party observes nationwide protest under ‘Kisan Adhikar Diwas’ against the Centre’s farm laws.
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Party observes nationwide protest under ‘Kisan Adhikar Diwas’ against the Centre’s farm laws.
Congress workers and leaders of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh on Friday held a foot march and demonstrations as a part of party’s observance of a nationwide protest under ‘Kisan Adhikar Diwas’ (Farmers’ Rights Day) against the Centre’s farm laws.
Congress members, including party MLAs led by Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar, took out a protest march from the Congress Bhawan in Chandigarh, towards the Punjab Raj Bhawan. Haryana Congress leaders, including the party’s State president Kumari Selja, Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda, and party general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala, led Congress workers’ march towards Haryana Raj Bawan in support of farmers’ demand
UPCC President, Congress workers detained during protest against farm laws in UP
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Last Updated: Jan 15, 2021, 02:21 PM IST
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Congress workers, including UPCC President Ajay Kumar Lallu, were on Friday taken into custody while trying to march towards the Raj Bhawan here as part of the party s Kisan Adhikar Diwas programme against the new farm laws.
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Congress workers, including UPCC president Ajay Kumar Lallu, were on Friday taken into custody while trying to march towards the Raj Bhawan here as part of the party s Kisan Adhikar Diwas programme against the new farm laws. Led by Lallu, party workers had started their march for the Raj Bhawan gherao programme when they were taken into custody in Dalibagh area, a Congress spokesman said.
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Congress won t relent till farm laws are repealed: Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the grand old party will not relent till the three farm laws are repealed. Rahul who led the party s protest in the national capital in support of the agitating farmers, said that the farm laws are not to help farmers, but to finish them. He said that the BJP government will have to withdraw the laws.
Rahul was accompanied by AICC general secretary and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other leaders of the Delhi Congress at they protested outside the Delhi LG s residence as part of the countrywide agitation.
Congress won t relent till Centre withdraws farm laws: Rahul Gandhi ANI | Updated: Jan 16, 2021 00:38 IST
New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): As Congress on Friday observed a Kisan Adhikar Divas against the farm laws across the country, party leader Rahul Gandhi said Congress will not relent till the Centre s newly enacted farm laws are repealed.
In a statement, Congress leader KC Venugopal said, as part of this, thousands of Congress Party leaders and workers led by Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi protested in front of the Raj Niwas in Delhi.
Addressing the workers in the protest Rahul Gandhi said, BJP government will have to withdraw the farm laws. The Congress will not relent till these laws are repealed. These laws are not to help farmers, but to finish them .
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UPDATED: January 15, 2021 07:27 IST
Farmers burnt copies of the three farm laws at several protest sites on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. (Photo: PTI)