[ad_1] The primary demand of farmer unions has been a guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP). The demand is not new and was also made during the year-long protest mounted by farmers during 2020-21. This issue has now become a sticking point for farmer unions and there appears to be broad agreement on the need for…
[ad_1] The Centre will hold a meeting with Punjab’s protesting farmers on February 14 in Chandigarh to discuss their demands, thus ending a stalemate over the resumption of a dialogue with the agitators, who have been demanding a legal guarantee on the MSP for crops. Following the announcement of the proposed meeting, farmer leader Jagjit…
[ad_1] BJP MP Kangana Ranaut hit back at the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president and former MP Simranjit Singh Mann on Thursday, following his derogatory remarks. Mann was reacting to the recent controversy surrounding Ranaut’s comments on the farmers’ protest. The 79-year-old politician made the disparaging remarks, mentioning “rape”, when a reporter asked for his…
[ad_1] Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP) Kangana Ranaut over her remarks on farmers’ protests. Yadav, the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, said the actor-politician’s words were ‘deliberate’ and will be used as a ‘shield’ so that the top leadership of the saffron party is…
[ad_1] A protest movement, especially one as big as the historic farmers’ protest that began in 2020, might not reveal all it strands when looked at from the frontlines. Much of the immediate reporting during the days of the protest, against a set of laws enacted by the Union government, were on the demands of…
