Mayawati Meets Farmers

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  "Farm Laws, Wavering On People's Welfare": BSP Also To Boycott President's Address

  The BSP has joined 17 other political parties in saying it will boycott President Ram Nath Kovind's address to Parliament scheduled to flag off the Budget session today. Amid a raging farmers' agitation, this is the first time the two Houses are meeting since the Monsoon session last year. The new agricultural laws aside, party chief Mayawati has c...

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  On Day 1, Yogi Adityanath Sets Tough Targets For Officials, Cops

  Yogi Adityanath, taking charge as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh after a spectacular mandate for the BJP, began work today on some of the party's major election promises including farm loan waiver and a ban on slaughterhouses. In his first meeting with top officials of the state, the priest-politician distributed copies of the BJP manifesto for re...

• Badaun Gang-Rape: For Mayawati's Visit, a Farmer's Land Cleared to Build a Helipad

  Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today joins a list of politicians who are visiting Badaun in Uttar Pradesh to meet the family of two teenagers were gang-raped and killed earlier this week.

• Land row: Mayawati announces new land acquisition policy

  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has finally met farmers protesting for greater compensation for land and announced a new land acquisition policy which will come into effect from today.She though clarified that the new policy will not affect land acquisition in Bhatta-Parsaul.The chief minister said the private players will have to directly ac...

• Mayawati to meet Bhatta-Parsaul farmers today

  To thrash out a novel land acquisition policy, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has invited farmers' representatives from different corners of the state for a 'kisan panchayat' in Lucknow today that would set the pace for major changes in the state's land acquisition policy."The chief minister is contemplating a completely new policy whereby t...

• Farmers' protests: RLD leader Ajit Singh meets PM

  Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) leader Ajit Singh met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today to discuss the unrest over acquisition of farm land in Greater Noida.Singh was detained by police on Sunday when he was on way to Bhatta Parsaul village in Greater Noida - the epicentre of the farmer protests in Uttar Pradesh.At least four people died over the weekend...

• Rahul Gandhi backs UP farmers against Mayawati

  Across Uttar Pradesh, farmers backed  by political parties happy to help out, made their anger known to the Mayawati government.  In parts of Aligarh and Mathura, trains were stopped, causing delays of two-hours, as passengers sweated it out.The issue is how much farmers are being paid for nearly 500 hectares of land that is being taken f...

• Rahul meets Aligarh's agitating farmers, takes Mayawati govt by surprise

  Rahul Gandhi took the Mayawati government by surprise when he visited Jikarpur village, the epicentre of the farmers' stir, on Saturday and expressed his solidarity with the agitators in Uttar Pradesh.The AICC general Secretary met the agitating farmers who have been demanding higher compensation for their land acquired by the UP government for the...