Farm Agitation

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 on the Punjab-Haryana border that triggered clashes.

It is "wrong" if attempts were made to scuttle farmers' protests, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said after Jack Dorsey alleged the government threatened to stop Twitter's India operations if posts critical of the ruling dispensation weren't removed.

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday said an agitation bigger than the one against the now repealed farm laws will have to be launched for a legal guarantee on the minimum support price.

Rakesh Tikait was one of the farmer leaders who led the agitation against the now-repealed farm laws. He continues to take part in protests by farmer groups across the country.

Members of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee on Sunday squatted on railway tracks in Punjab to demand a legal guarantee on MSP and withdrawal of cases registered against farmers during the farm laws stir, among other things.

Farmer unions will take out marches to Raj Bhavans across the country on Saturday to mark two years since they launched their agitation against three farm laws of the Centre that have since been scrapped.

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait has said his farmers' group would begin a campaign against the Centre's new military recruitment scheme Agnipath from August 7.

'Agnipath' has certainly lived up to its name. It has ignited flames of discontent among India's youth much like the agitation over farm laws.

Prominent farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait, who was one of the leaders of the massive agitation last year against contentious farm laws which were eventually repealed, was also in attendance.

As part of his national outreach plane, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will meet the families of around 600 farmers in Chandigarh today, who died during the nationwide farmers' agitation against the now-repealed Central farm laws.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the three farm laws over which farmers agitated on the borders of Delhi for almost a year were brought by the central government for the benefit of farmers and have now been withdrawn.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday handed over appointment letters of government jobs to 27 family members of the farmers who lost their lives in the agitation against the three farm laws.

Villagers in Hoshiarpur accorded a rousing reception to farmers who returned to their homes from protest sites on Delhi's borders following the suspension of their agitation against the Centre's three agriculture laws.

An aircraft showered flower petals on exuberant farmers returning home following the end of their year-long agitation against the contentious farm laws.

Farmers camping at Delhi's Singhu and Tikri borders will take out a victory march today as they return to their villages in Punjab and Haryana after a 15-month agitation that forced the centre to withdraw three contentious farm laws.

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 on the Punjab-Haryana border that triggered clashes.

It is "wrong" if attempts were made to scuttle farmers' protests, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said after Jack Dorsey alleged the government threatened to stop Twitter's India operations if posts critical of the ruling dispensation weren't removed.

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday said an agitation bigger than the one against the now repealed farm laws will have to be launched for a legal guarantee on the minimum support price.

Rakesh Tikait was one of the farmer leaders who led the agitation against the now-repealed farm laws. He continues to take part in protests by farmer groups across the country.

Members of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee on Sunday squatted on railway tracks in Punjab to demand a legal guarantee on MSP and withdrawal of cases registered against farmers during the farm laws stir, among other things.

Farmer unions will take out marches to Raj Bhavans across the country on Saturday to mark two years since they launched their agitation against three farm laws of the Centre that have since been scrapped.

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait has said his farmers' group would begin a campaign against the Centre's new military recruitment scheme Agnipath from August 7.

'Agnipath' has certainly lived up to its name. It has ignited flames of discontent among India's youth much like the agitation over farm laws.

Prominent farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait, who was one of the leaders of the massive agitation last year against contentious farm laws which were eventually repealed, was also in attendance.

As part of his national outreach plane, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will meet the families of around 600 farmers in Chandigarh today, who died during the nationwide farmers' agitation against the now-repealed Central farm laws.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the three farm laws over which farmers agitated on the borders of Delhi for almost a year were brought by the central government for the benefit of farmers and have now been withdrawn.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday handed over appointment letters of government jobs to 27 family members of the farmers who lost their lives in the agitation against the three farm laws.

Villagers in Hoshiarpur accorded a rousing reception to farmers who returned to their homes from protest sites on Delhi's borders following the suspension of their agitation against the Centre's three agriculture laws.

An aircraft showered flower petals on exuberant farmers returning home following the end of their year-long agitation against the contentious farm laws.

Farmers camping at Delhi's Singhu and Tikri borders will take out a victory march today as they return to their villages in Punjab and Haryana after a 15-month agitation that forced the centre to withdraw three contentious farm laws.