Farm Laws Explainer

There will be no re-union of the BJP and Akali Dal in Punjab - an alliance that fractured in September 2020 amid sharp differences over the centre's (now-scrapped) three farm laws - ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

The three farm laws at the heart of fierce protests by farmers across the country over the past 14 months will be withdrawn, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday in an unexpected announcement.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said he looks positively at the ongoing discussions with farmer unions as an opportunity to explain to them the benefits from the new laws against which they are protesting.

The government will appeal to farmers to call off the unprecedented protests against the new farm laws, explaining why it is diluting the laws, sources said. The protest - the biggest by farmers in years - has entered the fifteenth day. The government will also explain why it is bringing amendments to the controversial laws which the farmers want r...

Veteran Maharashtra leader Sharad Pawar today put out a clarification as an old letter in which he -- as Union Agriculture Minister -- had sought reforms in the farm sector was called out by the ruling BJP.

Angry farmers questioned today why the BJP-led central government had to bring in the three new farm laws, which the government says are agricultural reforms that meet their long-standing demands. The government is only interested in the welfare of the corporates, which is why such "black laws" are being brought in, said the representatives of farm...

On Sunday, amid scenes of chaos and uproar, the Rajya Sabha passed two of a set of three controversial bills related to India's agriculture sector. The bills, which replace ordinances issued in June, were passed amid fierce protests by farmers' groups - particularly in the grain bowl states of Haryana and Punjab. The Narendra Modi government has sa...

There will be no re-union of the BJP and Akali Dal in Punjab - an alliance that fractured in September 2020 amid sharp differences over the centre's (now-scrapped) three farm laws - ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

The three farm laws at the heart of fierce protests by farmers across the country over the past 14 months will be withdrawn, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday in an unexpected announcement.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said he looks positively at the ongoing discussions with farmer unions as an opportunity to explain to them the benefits from the new laws against which they are protesting.

The government will appeal to farmers to call off the unprecedented protests against the new farm laws, explaining why it is diluting the laws, sources said. The protest - the biggest by farmers in years - has entered the fifteenth day. The government will also explain why it is bringing amendments to the controversial laws which the farmers want r...

Veteran Maharashtra leader Sharad Pawar today put out a clarification as an old letter in which he -- as Union Agriculture Minister -- had sought reforms in the farm sector was called out by the ruling BJP.

Angry farmers questioned today why the BJP-led central government had to bring in the three new farm laws, which the government says are agricultural reforms that meet their long-standing demands. The government is only interested in the welfare of the corporates, which is why such "black laws" are being brought in, said the representatives of farm...

On Sunday, amid scenes of chaos and uproar, the Rajya Sabha passed two of a set of three controversial bills related to India's agriculture sector. The bills, which replace ordinances issued in June, were passed amid fierce protests by farmers' groups - particularly in the grain bowl states of Haryana and Punjab. The Narendra Modi government has sa...