7.57 pm: Protesting farmers say they will write to British leaders and ask them to stop the United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson , ...
7.57 pm: Protesting farmers say they will write to British leaders and ask them to stop the United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is the chief guest for Republic Day celebrations, from travelling to India till their demands are met, reports NDTV.
7.55 pm: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will lead a delegation of the party’s Members of Parliament to Rashtrapati Bhavan on December 24 and hand over around two crore signatures against the three farm laws to President Ram Nath Kovind, says Party General Secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal.
A delegation of @INCIndia leaders led by former Congress President @RahulGandhi will submit a memoranda of appeal signed by around 2 crore farmers from across the nation to Hon'ble Rashtrapati ji on 24th December, 2020 urging his intervention to annul the black anti-farmer laws.
— K C Venugopal (@kcvenugopalmp) December 22, 2020
7.30 am: The protesting farmer unions will decide on the Centre’s offer for fresh talks on Wednesday, reports The Hindu. Addressing a press conference, farmer leader Kulwant Singh Sandhu said that 32 unions from Punjab held a meeting and discussed the next course of action.
7.25 am: Here are the top updates from Tuesday
- Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday said he was hopeful that the protesting unions would soon complete their internal discussions and resume talks with the government....
