Farmers conduct tractor march day before talks with Centre; SC says protest shouldn t become COVID hotspot Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to reply within two weeks on the measures undertaken to stop the spread of COVID-19 at the protest sites. FP Staff January 07, 2021 21:16:02 IST Farmers take out a tractor rally in a protest against new farm laws at Ghaziabad, outskirts of New Delhi, India, Thursday. AP
A day before the government s eighth round of talks with protesting farm unions, thousands of farmers are participating in a tractor rally on the Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressways Thursday in a “rehearsal” for 26 January, when they will move into the National Capital from Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
Shiromani Akali Dal demands deployment of para-military forces for Punjab civic polls ANI | Updated: Jan 01, 2021 22:55 IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], January 1 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has urged the Punjab Election Commission on Friday to deploy para-military forces for the upcoming civic polls.
Shiromani Akali Dal said, Para-military forces are required to conduct free and fair elections to municipal bodies in the State.
SAD s demand for para-military forces in upcoming civic polls comes when the state BJP is attacking the Congress-led Punjab government for the alleged poor law and order situation in the state.
Slamming the Punjab BJP president Ashwani Sharma, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said the BJP is conducting false propaganda on the law and order situation of the state due to its fear of annihilation in the upcoming civic polls. (ANI)
Updated Dec 13, 2020 | 16:01 IST
Bihar BJP chief Dr Sanjay Jaiswal questioned Capt Amarinder Singh led Punjab government for alleged dubious behaviour in this sequence. Bihar BJP chief Dr Sanjay Jaiswal and Ravi Shankar Prasad address a gathering of farmers in Bakhtiyarpur
Bakhtiyarpur: Bharatiya Janata Party is iron-willed to double the income of farmers across the country and the new agriculture-related laws were promulgated by the Narendra Modi-led central government in the same sequence, asserted Bihar BJP chief Dr Sanjay Jaiswal while addressing the first Kisan Sammelan at Teka Bigaha in Bakhtiyarpur on Sunday.
Dr Jaiswal added that the massive mandate secured by the party in the recent Bihar assembly polls will ensure that the Bihari farmers reap maximum benefit from their agricultural produce. Farmers can sell their produce at will now. They’re no longer left at the mercy of middlemen. The new farm laws allow them to extract the maximum