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The proceedings of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly budget session on Friday (February 19) got off to a stormy start.
Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary demanding immediate discussion on the issue of farmers protest.
Some members also raised slogans.
Lucknow: The proceedings of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly budget session on Friday (February 19) got off to a stormy start over the farmers issue with Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary demanding immediate discussion on the topic.
As the members raised slogans and rushed into the well of the House to raise it, Speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit adjourned the house for 30 minutes.
Artists make sculptures depicting farmers agitation, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi on Friday.
NEW DELHI: The protesting farmer unions and the Yavatmal district administration are on a collision course as the former are adamant on holding a meeting in this Maharashtra town despite denial of permission to do so. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police said on Friday that the violence during the tractor rally of the farmers in the national capital on Republic Day was not due to intelligence failure.
Here are the key developments of the day:
1. Even as the district administration in Maharashtra s Yavatmal has denied permission to the February 20 Maha Panchayat of farmer leader Rakesh Tikait due to rising COVID-19 cases, its organiser Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) said it is firm on holding the public meeting there. The SKM said that if Tikait and other leaders are stopped in Yavatmal, then a sit-in protest would be held. The administration in Yavatmal district on Thursday ordered curbs on ga
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in the state Assembly on Friday that only the brokers who had betrayed farmers were unhappy over the new farm laws, prompting a sharp reaction from the Opposition benches who staged a walkout in protest. The issue had also come up when the House assembled in the morning, leading to the adjournment of the proceedings for an hour in two phases. After Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary demanded in the House that the issue of the protest against the farm laws be taken up immediately, the chief minister said the dalaals (brokers) were worried as now the money is directly going into the accounts of farmers.