Farmers Protest Highlights: Farmer leader accuses Pubjab government of 'playing match with the Centre'

Farmer leader accuses Pubjab government of 'playing match with the Centre'

Political people behind farmers' agitation, alleges former Uttarakhand CM

Former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Rawat on Monday alleged that political people are behind the ongoing farmers' agitation.

Rawat addressed sportspersons and women of various self-help groups in Budaun on Monday, and later spoke to reporters.

He said, "The farmers' agitation is not of the farmers but it is political. Farmers are arriving in the agitation with JCBs, tractors and weapons because political people are behind this movement."

To a question on the violence in Haldwani district of Uttarakhand, Rawat said that it was pre-planned. The matter is under investigation, he said.

(Source: PTI)

In HC, Haryana Police says Preetpal found severely injured, denies detaining him

The Haryana Police Monday informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that Preetpal Singh, a protesting farmer, was found severely injured in the fields and admitted to a hospital, but denied detaining him.

Jind Superintendent of Police Sumit Kumar said this to the court through a status report by way of an affidavit during a hearing on a habeas corpus petition filed by Preetpal Singh's father.

Preetpal was shifted from the PGI Rohtak to the PGIMER Chandigarh on Saturday after the Punjab chief secretary wrote to his Haryana counterpart demanding that the farmer be handed over to the state authorities.

(PTI)

"The Government of India is responsible for the present situation of deadlock. Barricading was done at Singhu, Ghazipur, Tigri borders and now barricading is being removed, the government is itself not sure whether it was doing the right thing then or now," says farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher

Visuals from Punjab-Haryana Sambhu border

MSP has outlived its utility. Give India’s farmers a new deal

Farmers during their protest over various demands, including a legal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP) for crops and farm loan waiver, at the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu Border, in Patiala district.

Adopting a more liberal MSP formula or providing a legal guarantee to the MSP would not work. Farmers’ desperate situation calls for a fundamentally different policy solution.

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Recap: Farmers' protest in pictures

A tale of two farmer protests — one in 1917, the other in 2024

Police use water cannons to disperse farmers protesting at Delhi-UP border during 'Kisan Kranti Padyatra' in New Delhi. Image for representation only.

The Champaran Satyagraha, which resulted in the advent of Mahatma Gandhi in the freedom struggle as a colossus, began with him admittedly breaking a law for the cause of farmers

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Farmers on Monday burnt effigies to protest against WTO

Farmers camping on Punjab's border with Haryana, to press the Union government for various demands, burnt effigies and raised slogans demanding the agriculture sector be taken out of the WTO agreement.

SKM was not in favour of 'Dilli Chalo' call, says farmer leader Pandher

Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher on Tuesday said several meetings were held with the Samyukta Kisan Morcha over the issue of 'Dilli Chalo' call but it was not in favour of the march to the national capital.

Pandher said this while responding to the SKM's claims in the media that it was neither invited nor consulted before deciding about the 'Dilli Chalo' call.