AMBALA: Farmers assembled in large numbers on Wednesday at Shambhu and other border points to mark the completion of 100 days of the ongoing protest to press the Centre to accept their demands, which includes a legal guarantee of MSP for crops. The farmers have camped at the Shambhu and Khanauri border points since February…
AMBALA: The Haryana Police has arrested farmer activist Navdeep Singh Jalbera in connection with an FIR lodged during the farmers’ ‘Delhi Chalo‘ stir in February. The arrest comes ahead of a gathering by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and the Kisan Mukti Morcha on March 31 to pay homage to Shubhkaran Singh, a 21-year-old farmer…
“We should be allowed to protest peacefully”: Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher We want Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold a dialogue with farmers or else we should be allowed to protest peacefully, said the General Secretary of the Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Sarvan Singh Pandher, as the farmers’ protest escalates into a full-blown…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spoke with injured farmer Gurmeet Singh, a participant in the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march and criticized the Modi government’s “dictatorial attitude” towards the nation’s farmers. The telephonic conversation occurred on Tuesday night and was facilitated by Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Raja Warring, who visited a government hospital in Rajpura town…
