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Traffic resumes at Shambhu border after year-long blockade, Khanauri reopening soon | Latest News India

Traffic resumes at Shambhu border after year-long blockade, Khanauri reopening soon | Latest News India

Traffic movement resumed on the Shambhu-Ambala Highway on Thursday after more than a year, while the Khanauri border point is set to reopen with Haryana Police removing roadblocks. Police personnel conduct checks near Jalandhar cantonment after police remove farmers from their protest site at the Haryana—Punjab Shambhu border, in Jalandhar on Thursday. (ANI ) This follows Punjab Police’s action a day earlier, detaining protesting farmers and dismantling their temporary structures. Road clearance at the protest sites in Shambhu and Khanauri continued as farmers staged demonstrations in Punjab, including Moga, Tarn Taran, Muktsar, and Faridkot, protesting against the previous evening’s crackdown on agitators. Farmers claimed that those detained had begun a hunger strike to protest against the police action. In Moga, a group of farmers, including women, scuffled with police while heading to demonstrate outside the deputy commissioner’s office. The developments sparked political reactions from various parties. In a statement from Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party reiterated its support for farmers but stressed the need to reopen key roads to safeguard Punjab’s economy. BJP accuses AAP …

Farmer leader Jagjit Dallewal moved to PWD guest house after police crackdown at Shambhu border | Latest News India

Farmer leader Jagjit Dallewal moved to PWD guest house after police crackdown at Shambhu border | Latest News India

Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who was taken to PIMS Jalandhar late at night, was moved to a PWD guest house in the high-security Jalandhar Cantonment area on Thursday morning as Haryana and Punjab police began evicting protesting farmers from the Shambhu and Khanauri border points, which had remained blocked for over a year. Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal was detained in Mohali before being transferred to Patiala on Wednesday.(PTI) Dallewal was detained on Wednesday evening and initially taken to the Commando Training Centre in Patiala before being moved to PIMS Hospital in Jalandhar. Sources told Hindustan Times that he was relocated around 1.30am. Earlier, he had been detained in Mohali before being transferred to Patiala. On Wednesday, Punjab Police detained several farmer leaders, including Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Sarwan Singh Pandher, in Mohali as they returned from a meeting with a central delegation led by Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Chandigarh. Farmer leader Guramneet Singh Mangat confirmed that Abhimanyu Kohar, Kaka Singh Kotra, and Manjit Singh Rai were also among those detained. …

Meeting Between Protesting Farmers, Central Team Held Cordially In Chandigarh

Meeting Between Protesting Farmers, Central Team Held Cordially In Chandigarh

Chandigarh: A meeting between a Central team led by Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and farmers’ representatives to discuss their various demands, including a legal guarantee for MSP on crops, was held in Chandigarh cordially on Friday and the next round of talks has been slated for February 22. The over two-and-a-half-hour meeting with the 28-member delegation from the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha was held after a year-long protest by farmers. It was also attended by Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian, the state’s Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Lal Chand Kataruchak and other state government representatives. The two outfits have been spearheading the ongoing farmers’ protest at Shambhu and Khanauri on the Punjab-Haryana border for the past one year. Following the meeting at the Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration here, the Union minister of consumer affairs, food and public distribution said the talks were held in a cordial atmosphere and another round of talks will be held on February 22. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will …

Today in Politics: Centre to hold talks with protesting farmers in Chandigarh | Political Pulse News

Today in Politics: Centre to hold talks with protesting farmers in Chandigarh | Political Pulse News

The Centre will hold a meeting with Punjab’s protesting farmers on Friday 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 Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops. Farmer leader Pandher spoke to reporters at Shambhu border, where a Kisan Mahapanchayat was held to mark the completion of one year of the ongoing agitation. He said that they will make efforts to move the Centre towards resolving the farmers’ issues in the meeting. Farmer leader Abhimanyu Kohar said that Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on an indefinite fast, will make his best efforts to participate in the meeting to put forth farmers’ demands. Story continues below this ad He said that Dallewal will try to participate in the meeting but he is not keeping well. “Dallewal wants to attend the meeting to put forth farmers’ demands before the Centre,” Kohar said. Dallewal, who is the convener of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), has been on an indefinite hunger …

Fasting Dallewal given medical aid after govt invites protesting farmers for talks; Meet in Feb | Latest News India

Fasting Dallewal given medical aid after govt invites protesting farmers for talks; Meet in Feb | Latest News India

Fasting farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, the convener of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), was given medical aid on Sunday on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. This came as Dallewal agreed to take medical aid after the Centre invited the protesting farmers to a meeting in Chandigarh on February 14 to discuss their demands. A team of government doctors is administering IV fluids to fasting farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal. (HT Photo/Karam Prakash) A team of government doctors administered Dallewal IV fluids. The farmer leader, however, continues his fast-unto-death protest. The 70-year-old leader has been protesting at the Khanauri border since November 26 to press the Centre to accept the farmers’ demands, including a legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) for crops. Besides a legally guaranteed MSP, the protesting farmers have been demanding a farm loan waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike in the electricity tariff, withdrawal of police cases and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 and compensation …

Centre preparing to implement revoked farm laws through backdoor: AAP chief Kejriwal | Latest News India

Centre preparing to implement revoked farm laws through backdoor: AAP chief Kejriwal | Latest News India

New Delhi, A convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the BJP would be responsible “if something happens” to the protesting farmers in Punjab who are on an indefinite fast over a set of demands, including a legal guarantee on MSP. Centre preparing to implement revoked farm laws through backdoor: AAP chief Kejriwal Kejriwal, in a post on X, also claimed that the Centre is preparing to implement the now-revoked three farm laws “through the backdoor” by calling it a “policy”. He said copies of the new “policy” have been sent to all states for their views on it. Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal has been on an indefinite fast for over a month and has refused medical aid. The A-led Punjab government has termed the newly announced draft policy on ‘National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing’ as an attempt to backdoor entry to the three central agri laws passed in 2020. After a yearlong protest by farmers, the Centre repealed the laws. Kejriwal posted on X that while the farmers were on a fast unto …

Court doors always open to suggestion, demand: SC after Punjab says farmers refusing talks | Delhi News

Court doors always open to suggestion, demand: SC after Punjab says farmers refusing talks | Delhi News

The Punjab government informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that extensive discussions had taken place with Jagjit Singh Dallewal, the farmer leader currently on an indefinite fast at the Khanauri border, along with other farmers. However, they have refused to engage with the high-powered committee established by the court. During the proceedings, Punjab’s advocate general, Gurminder Singh, reported that the committee had extended an invitation for dialogue on December 17, but the protesting farmers chose not to participate. Singh said the state government has been making daily efforts to encourage farmers to engage in discussions and proposed that they could submit their demands directly to the court. In response, the Supreme Court said, “We want to clarify that the court’s doors are always open to any suggestions or demands from farmers, whether directly or through their authorised representatives.” The court also expressed concern for Dallewal’s health, urging the Punjab government to ensure he receives medical assistance promptly. Why should you buy our Subscription? You want to be the smartest in the room. You want access …

Haryana farmers to take out tractor march on Feb 17: Charuni

A day after farm unions and the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) in Punjab extended support to the protesting farmers at Shambhu and Khanauri borders with the state, Haryana farm union leader Gurnam Singh Charuni on Thursday announced that his Bharatiya Kisan Union faction would picket toll plazas on Friday and take out a tractor march on Saturday. Farmers on a tractor near the Haryana-Punjab state border at Shambhu in Patiala district on Thursday. (AFP Photo) Addressing reporters after a meeting of his faction’s office-bearers in Kurukshetra on Thursday, Charuni said that toll plazas would be converted to free passages from 12 noon to 3pm in Haryana on February 16. Discover the thrill of cricket like never before, exclusively on HT. Explore now! “Apart from Haryana, toll plazas will be made free in parts of Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh, where we have representatives,” he said. The union will take out a tractor march in every tehsil of Haryana on Saturday in solidarity with farmers protesting at the Haryana-Punjab border. BKU (Charuni) spokesperson Rakesh Bains said …