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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at a book release event on March 19 (Maneesh Agnihotri)
Even as the stalemate over the new farm laws drags on, and neither the Centre nor the agitating farmers showing signs of relenting, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has begun to make conciliatory gestures. With the assembly election due in less than a year, the interventions may prove to be timely. A week-long ‘Gram Chaupal’ campaign, which got under way on March 11, entrusts BJP leaders in the state, including all ministers in the Yogi government, with the responsibility of reaching out to the 58,194 gram sabhas in the state, and publicising the farmer-friendly decisions of the state government. Launching the programme from the Gangaganj area of Lucknow, Swatantra Dev Singh, president of the BJP state unit and the person in charge of the campaign, held meetings in a dozen districts, including Sitapur, Sultanpur, Jaunpur, Ghazip
Centre encroaching upon rights of states: Punjab CM
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Chandigarh, April 5 : Reiterating his full support for the farmers and the arhtiyas, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday flayed the BJP-led Central government for encroaching upon the rights of the states in its bid to dominate them.
While castigating it over its one-sided decision to forcibly impose the farm laws and the direct benefit transfer (DBT) on the state s farming community, he said the states never faced such problems earlier.
Slamming the government of India for trying to destroy the existing relations and systems that had worked well for more than 100 years, in the name of so-called reforms, the Chief Minister said the Centre is trying to impose the farm laws without taking the stakeholders into confidence.
In the name of so-called reforms the centre was trying to destroy existing relations: Amarinder Singh
Chandigarh:
Attacking the BJP-led centre over farm laws and other issues, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Monday accused it of jeopardising the basic structure of democracy by allegedly encroaching upon the rights of states.
He castigated the central government over its one-sided decision to impose the farm laws and the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) on the state s farming community.
In the name of so-called reforms , he alleged, the centre was trying to destroy the existing relations and systems that had worked well for over 100 years.
Centre encroaching upon rights of states: Amarinder Singh, Punjab CM
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Slamming the government of India for trying to destroy the existing relations and systems that had worked well for more than 100 years, in the name of so-called reforms, the Chief Minister said the Centre is trying to impose the farm laws without taking the stakeholders into confidence.
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Amarinder Singh stressed that the Centre should have taken the farmers into confidence before the enactment of these contentious legislations.
Reiterating his full support for the farmers and the arhtiyas, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday flayed the BJP-led Central government for encroaching upon the rights of the states in its bid to dominate them.
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