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NEW DELHI: Congress MPs led by party chief Sonia Gandhi and former president Rahul Gandhi on Monday staged a protest in Parliament complex demanding the repeal of three farm laws. The Lok Sabha passed the Farm Laws Repeal Bill soon after the Winter Session convened, however, without a discussion as demanded by the Opposition. The […]

LUCKNOW: Upping the ante against the BJP government, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying if he was really sympathetic to the farmers then he must not share the dais with Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishr Teni at the DGP’s conference here and also drop him […]

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi announced on Friday to repeal farm laws in the upcoming winter session of Parliament. The public discourse and Opposition leaders gave a political angle to this announcement as elections are due in farmer-dominated states like Punjab and Uttar Pradesh early next year. But the statistics from last year and this […]

CHANDIGARH: Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday announced a memorial in Punjab in remembrance of those who lost their lives during year-long farmers’ movement. Channi said so far they (government) have not decided about the site, but the government would decide after discussing with the farmers’ union. He was addressing media here in Punjab […]

NEW DELHI: The farm laws may have been repealed by the central government but Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait and Jai Kisan Morcha founder Yogendra Yadav on Friday maintained that the ongoing farmers’ protest will be withdrawn only after the contentious legislations are repealed in Parliament and a legal guarantee on minimum support […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement about the repealing of the three contentious farm laws was appreciated by all parties across the political spectrum. While Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) supremo Parkash Singh Badal congratulated farmers and others behind the movement, he said one must now forget those who laid their lives to get these […]

CHANDIGARH: On the occasion of Guru Parv and just before Punjab Assembly elections, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced repealing of three contentious farm laws. “We have decided to repeal three farm laws. We will finish the constitutional process to repeal the law in upcoming Parliament session”, Prime Minister Modi said in a special address […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday addressed the nation  and announced the repealing of the three contentious farm laws that farmer unions have been protesting since last year. Modi made the announcement as he wished people on occasion of the Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev.  The prime minister in his speech […]

LUCKNOW: Former UP CM and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday embarked on a tour on the 341-km long Purvanchal Expressway, that was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday. Modi had inaugurated the 341-km long Purvanchal Expressway on Tuesday from Sultanpur and slammed the previous governments for neglecting the Purvanchal (eastern) areas of […]

NEW DELHI: A BJP delegation on Sunday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here and requested to reopen Kartarpur corridor on occasion ‘Guru Nanak Jayanti’ (Gurpurab) on November 19. The BJP delegation submitted a memorandum to the prime minister requesting for the reopening of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor, which has been closed since March, 2020 due […]