Rakesh Tikait, Medha Patkar Share Stage in Nandigram, Ask People to Defeat BJP
The region has attained extra significance after Mamata Banerjee relinquished her Bhowanipore constituency to face-off against BJP s Suvendu Adhikari.
Rakesh Tikait, Medha Patkar and other leaders in Kolkata on March 13, 2021. Photo: Himadri Ghosh
Rights14/Mar/2021
Nandigram: Amid a political slugfest between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP over chief minister Mamata Banerjee getting injured last week in Nandigram, farm leader Rakesh Tikait, along with noted social activist Medha Patkar and many others addressed a mahapanchayat at the same venue on Saturday.
One overarching message given by the leaders under the umbrella organisation Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is spearheading the protest at Delhiâs borders against the Centreâs farm laws, is âDefeat BJP. Donât vote for the BJP.â
As the Rich Receive State Patronage, Modi Has Left the Poor to Be Atmanirbhar
Under Modi, the state bears the losses of the rich, with tax concessions and state subsidies. But, working classes have to live through complete doing away of fertiliser subsidies, and petrol and diesel subsidies.
Migrant workers walk with their children to their villages after India announced a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Reuters
Rights15/Mar/2021
Last year on May 12, in the peak of COVID -19-induced lockdown, when the poorest of the poor migrant workers were walking thousands of kilometres to their homes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the insight of an oracle declared that âthe state of the world today teaches us that
Haryana: BJP-JJP Alliance Wins Trust Vote, but Fumbles on Farmers Protests
The Congress party, which moved the no-confidence motion, said the debate leading to the trust vote showed which MLAs are with farmers, and who are with the government.
Haryana CM Manohar Lal reacts during the State Budget Session, in Chandigarh, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Photo: PTI
Politics10/Mar/2021
New Delhi: The Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government in Haryana won the no-confidence motion brought up by the Congress party, as the ruling side mustered 55 votes against the opposition’s 32 votes in the 90-member assembly.
The motion has been moved in the backdrop of ongoing farmers’ protests, and the Congress claimed that the chief aim of the motion was to let people know which MLAs stood with the farmers, and who took the side of the government. Despite the ruling BJP with its alliance partner Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) pulling through, the debate leading to the trust vote provided the opposition a
A farmer chained himself during their ongoing protest against farm laws, at Ghazipur border in Delhi on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI: To mark completion of four months of their agitation against the three Central farm laws, the protesting farmers on Wednesday gave a call for Bharat bandh on March 26. The farmers will observe “Mandi bachao, kheti bachao’ on March 19.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said he would visit West Bengal, which is going to polls, later this week and appeal to the farmers to defeat the BJP.
Here are the key developments of the day:
1. Farmer unions called for a Bharat bandh on March 26, when their protest at Delhi s borders against the Centre s three new farm laws completes four months. Farmer leader Buta Singh Burjgill said farmers along with trade unions will protest the hike in fuel prices and privatisation of railways on March 15. We will observe a complete Bharat bandh on March 26, when our protest against the three farm laws com
How Diversifying Public Procurement of Grains Can Resolve the Impasse Over MSP
By shifting from rice and wheat crops, which get overemphasis both in terms of cultivation and procurement, to coarse grains such as bajra, maize can go a long way in correcting issues concerned with MSP. Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave
Government06/Mar/2021
Talks between the Indian government and representatives of farmersâ unions leading the protest movement against the three hastily passed farm laws seems to have reached a stalemate. At the centre of the disagreement lies the existing system of government procurement and minimum support price (MSP).
Farmers are worried that the farm laws will undermine the system of state-mandated procurement at remunerative minimum support prices. This, they argue, will increase volatility in farm incomes, and lead to rising indebtedness and a fall in living standards. Existing evidence and their own experience suggest that their worries are amply warranted.