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Policeman Injured, Tear Gas Shells Fired As Cops, Farmers Clash In Haryana

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Chandigarh: A police officer was injured Friday in a pitched battle between protesting farmers and cops in Khedi Chwpata in Haryana’s Hisar. Visuals showed a chaotic and volatile situation; police – escorted by riot personnel in full gear – can be seen taking people into custody while angry farmers surrounded them threateningly, shouting and jeering. The violence – in which tear gas shells were fired and police resorted to a lathi charge, while protesters threw stones – broke after the farmers were stopped from marching to Khanauri on the Punjab border to join thousands of their colleagues who have gathered there, and at the Shambhu border crossing, ahead of a ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to demand a legal guarantee for MSP, or minimum support price, and waiver of farm loans, pensions, and ollback of increased electricity rates, among other things. Earlier today a 62-year-old farmer died in Khanauri after suffering a cardiac arrest. Darshan Singh was from Punjab’s Bathinda district, and was the second person from Bathinda to have died in these protests; on Wednesday Subhkaran …

Farmers Protest: Farmers To March On Delhi Again, After Snubbing Centre’s Offer: 10 Points

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Delhi Farmers Protest: Farmers have been protesting the MSP issue since the 2020/21 agitation (File). New Delhi: Farmers demanding legal backing for MSP, or minimum support price, and calling for it to include all 23 listed cash crops, resume their march on Delhi today, after rejecting the offer of a five-year contract to buy only pulses, maize, and cotton. Here are the Top 10 points in this big story: On Monday evening farmer leaders snubbed the government’s offer to buy maize, cotton, and three types of pulses – toor, urad, and masoor – at the old MSP. They said it did not make sense as it applied to only a few crops, and ignored those growing the other 18. The farmers said the price – based on the A2+FL+50 per cent formula (MSP at 1.5 times direct costs, such as seeds and fertilisers, and unpaid family labour), and not the Swaminathan Commission’s C2+50 per cent formula (which includes rent for farm land, or the rental value of owned land) – would be “subsistence” payments and not …

Centre’s New 5-Year MSP Proposal. What It Means

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Delhi Farmers Protest: Farmers have been protesting the MSP issue since the 2020/21 agitation (File). New Delhi: The deadlock between the government and protesting farmers rolled into a second week Monday, with no definite breakthrough after four rounds of talks but signs of an accord on the horizon. At a meeting late Sunday the government – facing a second round of farmers’ protests, this time just weeks before a general election – relented on the subject of MSP, or minimum support price, proposing a five-year contract to buy pulses, maize, and cotton. The farmers – for whom MSP is a red-flag issue – asked, and were given, 48 hours to confer, and have put ‘Delhi Chalo 2.0’ on hold. A legal assurance for MSP is seen as No.1 on the farmers’ wish list. The two sides met in Chandigarh, with the government represented by three union ministers, including Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal. The first signs, though, are not encouraging, with farmer leaders telling NDTV the government must offer guarantees on all 23 crops, and not …

Farmers To Resume March After Night Halt, Prohibitory Orders In Delhi

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Farmers Protest Live Updates: To ensure law and order, Delhi police enforced Section 144. New Delhi: The farmers protesting over a list of demands will soon resume their march towards Delhi after a night halt . Authorities have intensified security arrangements to stop farmers’ march as the Singhu and Tikri borders were shut while the Red Fort complex was closed temporarily. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha are spearheading the ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation to put pressure on the Centre for their demands, including a law on minimum support price for crops and loan waivers. To ensure law and order, Delhi police enforced Section 144, restricting the entry of tractor trolleys and large assemblies. Here are the LIVE updates from the Farmers’ Protest: Get NDTV UpdatesTurn on notifications to receive alerts as this story develops. Farmers Protest Live Updates: Delhi remains under tight security as farmer determined to march With protesting farmers seeking to march to the national capital, security remained tight on Wednesday with personnel deployed in huge numbers and barricades …

Farmers Protest, Farmer Leader Rakesh Tikait’s “If Government Creates Problem” Warning

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New Delhi: Rakesh Tikait – a key figure in the 2020/21 protests against the government’s “black farm laws” – has backed the second ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation, which began Tuesday with tear gas being fired at Shambhu on the Punjab-Haryana border, triggering clashes between farmers and police forces. Mr Tikait issued an ominous warning to the ruling BJP – scrambling to contain protests that have erupted weeks before a general election – “if government creates a problem for these farmers…” “There are several farmer unions and they have different issues… If the government creates a problem for farmers marching to Delhi, we are not far from them. We are in support of them…” #WATCH | On farmers’ ‘Delhi chalo’ protest, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait says, “MSP guarantee law and Swaminathan Committee report, Electricity amendment bill and debt waiver are the issues of the farmers across the country. There are several farmer unions and they have different… pic.twitter.com/UCcVGDsRPo — ANI (@ANI) February 13, 2024 Mr Tikait is head of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, an Uttar Pradesh-based organisation …

Tear Gas Fired At Farmers Marching Towards Delhi At Punjab-Haryana Border

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New Delhi: Tear gas has been fired at farmers massing at the Shambhu border point between Punjab and Haryana – a key meeting point for farmers from each state heading to Delhi as part of their ‘Delhi Chalo’ call. Visuals showed huge plumes of smoke – making visibility almost impossible – and hundreds of farmers, as well as media personnel, running helter-skelter to the sound of tear gas shells being fired. The shelling – the first signs of violence – broke as the clock struck noon and the farmers began their push to Delhi. An estimated two dozen shells were fired, despite no immediate signs of provocation. Visuals from the Shambhu border – over 200 km from Delhi – also showed the police and security personnel – already outnumbered – dropping smoke bombs from drones to disperse the farmers. Around 200 farmer unions – and an estimated one lakh farmers from neighbouring Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh – began marching on the national capital Tuesday morning, in a worrying replay of the 2020/21 protests, in …

Large Gatherings Banned In Delhi Till March 12 Ahead Of Farmers’ Mega March

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New Delhi: Large gatherings have been banned across Delhi for a month – till March 12 – ahead of a mega protest by farmers starting Tuesday. Over 200 farmer unions – around 20,000 farmers in all – are expected to converge on the national capital in the next few days, in a potential replay of the violent protests in 2020/21 over “black” farm laws passed (and then scrapped) by the central government. Identical orders have been in force in the northeast districts since Saturday – after farmers, who are expected to roll in 200 tractors – from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Punjab launched the protest. The farmers have multiple demands, including enactment of a law to guarantee minimum support price, or MSP, for their crops. Legal assurances for the MSP scheme was part of the protests four years ago, which were called off after the government reached a deal with the agitating farmers. The other demands are implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations, pensions for farmers and farm labourers, waiving of farm debts, and withdrawal …

Traffic Jams At Delhi-Noida Border As Cops Prep For Big Farmers’ Protests

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Cars are stuck in traffic at Delhi Noida border as cops check every vehicle New Delhi: Three union ministers – junior Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda, junior Home Minister Nityanand Rai, and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal – and a central government delegation have been rushed to Chandigarh to meet representatives of protesting Punjab farmers, sources have told NDTV. The meeting is expected at 6 pm and will, the government hopes, end with the Punjab farmers calling off a protest – a tractor march – scheduled for Tuesday to highlight demands like a law to guarantee MSP, or minimum support price, for crops, pension for farmers, and crop insurance. A key demands is the scrapping of police cases against farmers during the 2020 protest. Meanwhile, a second, unrelated protest is playing out on the Delhi-Noida border, where Uttar Pradesh farmers are demanding increased compensation and developed plots in exchange for local development authorities acquiring their farmlands for infrastructure and other projects. READ | Punjab Farmers To March To Delhi On Feb 13, Over MSP Demand The Narendra Modi …