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BATHINDA: The twitter accounts of those associated with farmer protest at Delhi borders have been suspended temporarily. The accounts of Kisan Ekta Morcha, the official IT cell of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, Tractor2 Twitter, the twitter handle being operated by some professionals led by Sydney returned IT professional Bhavjit Singh, the Caravan India magazine and many more were suspended on Monday. All those accounts which have been suspended were active in spreading information about happenings at the protest. Baljit Singh, head of Samyukt Morcha IT cell named Kisan Ekta Morcha said, Every day in the morning we were giving a hashtag for twitter users to use that hashtag. It used to get tens of thousands of posts in only a few hours from India and many other countries and the point used to get viral. Going by it Twitter on Monday suspended our account and many other accounts. It has been done under directions of the government to stop inflow of information. ....
NEW DELHI: Twitter withheld an unspecified number of accounts in India in response to a “legal request” and then restored them around 9pm on Monday. The accounts included those of newsmagazine Caravan, Kisan Ekta Morcha (the IT cell of Samyukt Kisan Morcha), tribal leader Hansraj Meena and actor Sushant Singh all engaged with the ongoing farmers protests. News agency ANI quoting “sources” reported that the ministry of electronics and information (MEITY) had asked Twitter to block around 250 tweets/Twitter accounts that were using a hashtag that was “fake, intimidatory and provocative” under section 69A of the IT Act. MEITY had acted on a request of the Union Home ministry and law enforcement agencies, who asked for suspension to “prevent any escalation of the law and order in view of the ongoing protests,” the news agency added. ....
Demand for MSP Guarantee Ignores Agricultural Labourers and Widening Class Divide The public procurement infrastructure must be overhauled. Expansion must be even and penetrate deeper into the stratified rural economy. Representative image of a farmer at work. IWMI Flickr Photos/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Rights25/Jan/2021 The notoriously brief 11th round of talks between the Union government and the protesting farmersâ unions ended without offering any solution to issue of the three farm laws and a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price. In the earlier rounds, a apsi razamandi, as Union Agricultural Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has dubbed it, was reached on two of the four issues discussed. The two issues were: decriminalisation of stubble burning and dropping the relevant provisions of the draft Electricity Amendment Bill, 2020. ....
Vintage tractors at farmer parade from Singhu border SECTIONS Last Updated: Jan 26, 2021, 04:45 PM IST Share Synopsis Singh, taking a break from his job in the IT sector in Sydney, Australia, has been running a Twitter campaign promoting the struggles of farmers in India. His family-owned 1968 model DT-14 tractor, manufactured in Russia, was one of the oldest tractors that strode up the roads elegantly during the farmers parade against the farm laws. AFP NEW DELHI: Bhavjit Singh s 53-year-old Soviet-era tractor swaggered along the parade route on Tuesday, matching the pace of others that just rolled out of the showroom. Singh, taking a break ....