Mohali residents protest in solidarity with farmers agitating against agri laws
The protesting city residents said that they extend their support to the farmers who have been protesting for the last one month against the controversial laws. December 28, 2020 5:04:42 am In support of farmers’ call for ‘thali bajao’ during PM Narendra Modi s Maan Ki Baat, residents of Mohali protest in Sector 60 on Sunday. (Photo: Jasbir Malhi)
In solidarity with the farmers protesting against the three Agriculture laws, city residents took to the streets on Sunday and held a protest at Phase 3B-2 market in SAS Nagar.
The protesting city residents said that they extend their support to the farmers who have been protesting for the last one month against the controversial laws. “The union government must repeal the laws with immediate effect. These laws will ruin the farmers. The farmers who are protesting are making genuine demands,” said Akwinder Sing
Farmers Protest: Union Leader Gets Death Threat, Case Filed
Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait lodged a complaint that an unidentified caller had threatened to kill him
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An FIR was registered on Saturday on a complaint alleging that Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait, who has been participating in the agitation against the farm laws, received a death threat on his phone, a senior police officer said.
City Superintendent of Police (II) Gyanendra Singh said that Mr Tikait s personal assistant Arjun Baliyan lodged the complaint that an unidentified caller had threatened to kill the farmer leader.
Protests an Opposition ploy, says PM Modi, signals no yield on demand for repeal
“Why do you adopt a dogali (doublespeak) policy? What kind of politics are they doing in which there is no logic, no facts? Make false accusations and spread rumours to scare our farmers. Sometimes, naive farmers get misled by you,” the Prime Minister said. Updated: December 26, 2020 8:17:09 am
Slamming the Opposition for what he called its “dogali” (doublespeak) policy over the new farm laws, Modi said the government is ready to hold talks in the interest of farmers, but it will be on “issues, logic and facts”.
Farmers respond: It’s clear Govt will not back down, we are prepared for the long haul
Jagmohan Singh, general secretary of BKU (Dakaunda) and working committee member of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), said the Prime Minister s speech showed that the government was not going to repeal the laws. Updated: December 26, 2020 2:17:49 pm
BJP Twitter warriors continue to use social media platforms to spew hatred against the protesting farmers. Especially Sikh farmers. They rant hysterically about ‘international conspiracies to defame India’.
Responding to the
Prime Minister’s speech Friday, farmer unions, protesting against the new farm laws, warned of a “long struggle”, saying it was evident that the government seemed to be in no mood to back down on the laws.
Farmers at Ghazipur border in New Delhi, Thursday.
In the immediate term, as the protests continue, it could mean that the political party will have little or no say in a crucial calculation that will decide the timing and content of the resolution: When do the costs of the mobilisation begin to outweigh the investments being made in it?
As the ruling party at the Centre, the BJP, of course, is on the other side of the fence. With the Shiromani Akali Dal exiting the NDA over the farm laws, the BJP is on its own again in a state that resisted the Modi sweep in 2014 and again in 2019.