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In A Message To Centre, Marriage At Madhya Pradesh Farmers' Protest Site
A Madhya Pradesh farmer union leader organised his son's marriage at a protest site in Rewa, around 500 kilometres from Bhopal, where hundreds of farmers have been protesting the centre's three agriculture laws. The leader said it also sends out a message to the central government that the farmers will not stop protesting until their demands are fu...
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Chaos At Congress's Bhopal Pro-Farmer Rally As Cops Use Tear Gas, Water Cannons, Lathis
The Madhya Pradesh Congress's two-week-long programme in support of the farmers protesting against three Central laws came to a rather chaotic end today in capital Bhopal as the police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the party's march towards Raj Bhawan. What began as a mass of party workers led by former Chief Minister Kamal Nath wavin...
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Congress MLA's "Headstand Protest" After Official Refuses To Meet Him
A Congress MLA in Madhya Pradesh performed a headstand in protest against a local collector not meeting him. Congress MLA Babusingh Jandel along with his supporters and some farmers had gone to the collector's office in Sheopur, some 390 km from state capital Bhopal, to demand raise in compensation for land acquired by the government to build the A...
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Ex-MLA Gets 3 Years Jail For Threatening To Burn Down Police Station In Madhya Pradesh
In 2017, Ex-MLA and Congress leader Shakuntala Khatik had asked a crowd of protesters to "burn the police station down" in a video that was widely shared online.
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'Buddhi Set The Place On Fire': 80-Year-Old Thrashed In Madhya Pradesh
An 80-year-old woman has alleged that she had been beaten up by the Madhya Pradesh police last week, who had come to her house chasing protesters from a farmers' rally in at Phanda kalan village near Sehore on Friday. Her husband Shiv Narayan, who is nearly 100 years old, was beaten up too and her son and four grandsons have been illegally arrested...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan Meets Farmers, May End Fast Today
Madhya PradeshChief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who started an indefinite fast yesterdayamid raging farmers' protests in the state, has hinted that he will end the fast today. "The families came, met me and told me that you don't need to fast. They asked me to visit their village. We will do all we can do for them. If peace remains, we will dec...
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To Meet Protesting Farmers, Rahul Gandhi To Be In Madhya Pradesh Today
Seeking to put the BJP government on the mat for the firing on protesters in Madhya Pradesh that killed five people, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will today reach Mandsaur about 325 km from capital of Bhopal to meet the families of the farmers who, the Congress says, were murdered in cold blood for demanding a loan waiver and better price f...
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In Fight for Help, These Farmers Have Been on a 'Water Protest' for 25 Days
Twenty protestors, from Gholgagon village along the Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh, have been standing in waist-deep water for the last 25 days. The soles of their feet are completely stripped of skin and are infected with fungal sores.
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan holds dharna against Centre for farmers' relief package
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan began a four-hour-long dharna in Bhopal this morning to register his protest against the Centre's alleged indifference towards his demand for a relief package of Rs 5000 crore to compensate the farmers for the losses suffered by them because unseasonal rains and hailstorms.
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'Jal Satyagraha' returns to Madhya Pradesh as farmers begin five-day protest
Over a thousand people took out a rally in Bhopal today against the Madhya Pradesh government for allegedly not providing those affected by the five dam projects with adequate rehabilitation entitlement. People from over 400 villages from areas near Omkareshwar, Indira Sagar, Maheshwar, Maan and Upper Beda dams have camped in Bhopal's Neelam Park ...
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Farmers end agitation in Bhopal
The farmers' agitation, which had paralysed life in the city for the last two days, ended on Tuesday after all major demands of the protestors were accepted by the Madhya Pradesh government, which also said it will frame a new law for land acquisition on the lines of Haryana.State President of Bhartiya Kisan Sangh Shiv Kumar Sharma and Parliamentar...
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Farmers protest in Bhopal, lay siege to Chief Minister's residence
A large number of farmers 'gheraoed' Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's residence in Bhopal in support of their various demands including 12-hour power supply to rural areas, paralysing traffic on key roads.The farmers, protesting with their tractor-trolleys under the banner of Madhya Pradesh Kisan Sangh, said they had been force...
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In A Message To Centre, Marriage At Madhya Pradesh Farmers' Protest Site
A Madhya Pradesh farmer union leader organised his son's marriage at a protest site in Rewa, around 500 kilometres from Bhopal, where hundreds of farmers have been protesting the centre's three agriculture laws. The leader said it also sends out a message to the central government that the farmers will not stop protesting until their demands are fu...
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Chaos At Congress's Bhopal Pro-Farmer Rally As Cops Use Tear Gas, Water Cannons, Lathis
The Madhya Pradesh Congress's two-week-long programme in support of the farmers protesting against three Central laws came to a rather chaotic end today in capital Bhopal as the police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the party's march towards Raj Bhawan. What began as a mass of party workers led by former Chief Minister Kamal Nath wavin...
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Congress MLA's "Headstand Protest" After Official Refuses To Meet Him
A Congress MLA in Madhya Pradesh performed a headstand in protest against a local collector not meeting him. Congress MLA Babusingh Jandel along with his supporters and some farmers had gone to the collector's office in Sheopur, some 390 km from state capital Bhopal, to demand raise in compensation for land acquired by the government to build the A...
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Ex-MLA Gets 3 Years Jail For Threatening To Burn Down Police Station In Madhya Pradesh
In 2017, Ex-MLA and Congress leader Shakuntala Khatik had asked a crowd of protesters to "burn the police station down" in a video that was widely shared online.
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'Buddhi Set The Place On Fire': 80-Year-Old Thrashed In Madhya Pradesh
An 80-year-old woman has alleged that she had been beaten up by the Madhya Pradesh police last week, who had come to her house chasing protesters from a farmers' rally in at Phanda kalan village near Sehore on Friday. Her husband Shiv Narayan, who is nearly 100 years old, was beaten up too and her son and four grandsons have been illegally arrested...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan Meets Farmers, May End Fast Today
Madhya PradeshChief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who started an indefinite fast yesterdayamid raging farmers' protests in the state, has hinted that he will end the fast today. "The families came, met me and told me that you don't need to fast. They asked me to visit their village. We will do all we can do for them. If peace remains, we will dec...
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To Meet Protesting Farmers, Rahul Gandhi To Be In Madhya Pradesh Today
Seeking to put the BJP government on the mat for the firing on protesters in Madhya Pradesh that killed five people, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will today reach Mandsaur about 325 km from capital of Bhopal to meet the families of the farmers who, the Congress says, were murdered in cold blood for demanding a loan waiver and better price f...
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In Fight for Help, These Farmers Have Been on a 'Water Protest' for 25 Days
Twenty protestors, from Gholgagon village along the Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh, have been standing in waist-deep water for the last 25 days. The soles of their feet are completely stripped of skin and are infected with fungal sores.
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan holds dharna against Centre for farmers' relief package
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan began a four-hour-long dharna in Bhopal this morning to register his protest against the Centre's alleged indifference towards his demand for a relief package of Rs 5000 crore to compensate the farmers for the losses suffered by them because unseasonal rains and hailstorms.
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'Jal Satyagraha' returns to Madhya Pradesh as farmers begin five-day protest
Over a thousand people took out a rally in Bhopal today against the Madhya Pradesh government for allegedly not providing those affected by the five dam projects with adequate rehabilitation entitlement. People from over 400 villages from areas near Omkareshwar, Indira Sagar, Maheshwar, Maan and Upper Beda dams have camped in Bhopal's Neelam Park ...
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Farmers end agitation in Bhopal
The farmers' agitation, which had paralysed life in the city for the last two days, ended on Tuesday after all major demands of the protestors were accepted by the Madhya Pradesh government, which also said it will frame a new law for land acquisition on the lines of Haryana.State President of Bhartiya Kisan Sangh Shiv Kumar Sharma and Parliamentar...
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Farmers protest in Bhopal, lay siege to Chief Minister's residence
A large number of farmers 'gheraoed' Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's residence in Bhopal in support of their various demands including 12-hour power supply to rural areas, paralysing traffic on key roads.The farmers, protesting with their tractor-trolleys under the banner of Madhya Pradesh Kisan Sangh, said they had been force...
