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  UP Violence Will End Yogi Government: Congress's Deepender Singh Hooda

  Senior Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda on Monday said the deadly violence at Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri will spell doom for the BJP government in the state like the Bhatta Parsaul episode a decade ago.

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  Lakhimpur Kheri Protest Will Lead To Change Of UP Government: Congress Leader

  Senior Congress leader Deepinder Singh Hooda on Monday said the farmers' agitation at Lakhimpur Kheri will usher in a change of government in Uttar Pradesh, similar to the change of guard following the Bhatta Parsaul episode a decade ago.

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  Supreme Court Order Gives Relief for Greater Noida Flat Owners, Leaves Farmers Unhappy

  Lakhs of apartment owners can breathe easy after the Supreme Court today ended the uncertainty over land acquisition in more than 60 villages in Greater Noida. The top court on Thursday dismissed petitions filed by both farmers of the region, as well as the Greater Noida authority. Meanwhile, the farmers of the region have said they may be left wit...

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  Congress Launches Protest March from Parsaul Against Land Bill

  Four years after party vice president Rahul Gandhi launched an agitation against forcible land acquisition in 2011 in this village in western Uttar Pradesh, Congress today began a protest march from in Parsaul against the new Land Acquisition Bill.

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  Congress Starts Agitation Over Land Ordinance in UP villages that Fought for Land Rights

  The Congress set the ball rolling on its action plan to take on the Union government today over the land ordinance, issuing a call to action to farmers.

• At Bhatta-Parsaul, no faith in government's 'land'mark bill?

  Less than 48 hours before Parliament is expected to take up the Land Acquisition Bill, a protest turned violent in Noida after angry villagers set fire to an officer's car.

• UP government withdraws cases against Bhatta-Parsaul farmers

  The Uttar Pradesh government has withdrawn the criminal cases lodged against the farmers in of Bhatta-Parsaul, a promise AKhilesh Yadav had made while campaigning for in the state.

• No CBI probe into alleged Bhatta Parsaul rapes, says Allahabad High Court

  A bench of the Allahabad High Court will today decide whether the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should probe the alleged rape of women in Bhatta and Parsaul villages in Uttar Pradesh by police jawans in the aftermath of the land acquisitions clashes between farmers and Noida police in May last year. Those violent clashes had also claimed th...

• Bhatta-Parsaul rape case: Uttar Pradesh government orders FIR

  After almost six months of inaction over the alleged rapes in Bhatta and Parsaul villages, the Uttar Pradesh government has finally ordered filing of FIR against security personnel accused in the case. The FIR is being lodged at the Dankur police station in Noida.

• Bhatta Parsaul rape case: 'Contempt proceedings if no action'

  It pitched Mayawati against Rahul Gandhi and while the Uttar Pradesh administration may have dragged its feet in registering cases against policemen, alleged to have raped women in Bhatta and Parsaul villages, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission has now stepped in.

• Bhatta Parsaul protests: Women speak out after six months, allege rape

  For almost six months their ordeal during the violent farmer-police clashes in Bhatta Parsaul, which took place in May this year, went largely unreported. But now women are speaking out and alleging cases of rape against policemen, who cracked down on the protestors.

• Bhatta-Parsaul 'rapes': Arrest warrant against senior Uttar Pradesh cop

  Whether six women were raped by policemen in Greater Noida during a weekend in May has become a political point of such significance that three different committees have been roped in for their assessment.

• Bhatta-Parsaul 'rapes': Arrest warrant against senior Uttar Pradesh cop

  The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has issued an arrest warrant against a senior Uttar Pradesh police officer for failing to investigate seven alleged rape cases in Bhatta-Parsaul villages.

• Bhatta Parsaul protests: Police asked to register rape case against cops

  The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has sought registration of FIRs against policemen accused of raping seven women in Bhatta and Parsaul villages during an agitation against by farmers.

• Rahul Gandhi visits Bhatta Parsaul again

  Rahul Gandhi is again in Mayawati land, slowly making his way, yatra-like, to a Mahapanchayat in Aligarh. With elections due next year in Uttar Pradesh, Gandhi's meandering journey through the belt that has seen violent land wars, is as important as the destination. A vital stop in that yatra today was Bhatta and Parsaul, the twin villages in ...