'Protesting to protect our bread and butter': Farmers at Azad Maidan say MSP, mandis crucial to sustain families
Natashatrivedi • 4 years agoThe farmers protest at Mumbai's Azad Maidan, who have been mobilised under the joint banner of the 'Samyukta Shetkari Kamgar Morcha', is the second of its kind; it comes almost three years after big and small farmers part of the Kisan Long March swept the city in a wave of red and white
From MSP guarantee to pathway for 'repealing' agri laws, a look at protesting farmers' proposed agenda for talks
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe fears regarding the eventual 'dismantling' of the MSP system constitute a major sticking point in the talks
Farm laws: News18 survey indicates majority backs reforms but Modi must persist with persuasive engagement with protestors
Sreemoy Talukdar • 4 years agoThe survey's findings suggest that It would be misleading to define the protests as a mass agitation backed by India’s 14 crore farmers
Farmers' protest: 53.6% Indians support new farm laws, 30.6% oppose them, finds News18 Network survey
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe survey by News18 Network was conducted across 22 states with more than 2,400 respondents in total
Farmers' Protest Updates: Centre invites farmers' unions for next round of talks at Vigyan Bhawan, asks them to choose date
Fp Staff • 4 years agoFarmers' Protest Updates: Thousands of farmers have been camping at Delhi's borders for nearly four weeks demanding repeal of the Centre's three farm laws. Several rounds of talks have failed to end the deadlock between the farmers and the government.
Farmers adamant on their demand of repealing agri laws as Delhi records season's lowest temp
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCentre continued its pro-reform campaign on Saturday as well, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterating that the laws brought by his government six months ago have started benefiting farmers without elaborating
Farmers' Protest Updates: Maharashtra farmers' group announces plan to march to Delhi; cultivators to gather in Nasik on 20 Dec
Fp Staff • 4 years agoFarmers' Protest LIVE Updates: Dr Ajit Nawale, secretary of the Maharashtra unit of All India Kisan Sabha, will lead the farmers' march from Nasik to Delhi
Narendra Modi says new farm laws 'not implemented overnight', accuses Oppn of misleading farmers
• 4 years agoAddressing farmers in Madhya Pradesh, he added the laws but were long overdue and that political parties and agriculture experts had demanded such reforms
Sikh priest kills self, leaves note on farmers' protests; hope Centre wakes up: Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe priest, identified as Baba Ram Singh ji Singhra wale, left a note in Punjabi where he said that he was sacrificing his life "to express anger and pain against the government's injustice" to farmers
It's time to revisit repealed APMC and the lost cause of fair crop procurement in Bihar
Atul K Thakur • 4 years agoIn Bihar as well as in the country, the need of the hour is to revisit the old decisions and make course corrections