8.30 am: Meanwhile, farmer leaders from Punjab protesting at Delhi borders have started travelling to different parts of the country to d...
8.30 am: Meanwhile, farmer leaders from Punjab protesting at Delhi borders have started travelling to different parts of the country to draw support against the farm laws, reports The Indian Express.
Protesting unions have planned to take the agitation to 20 states, covering nearly 500 districts by December end, the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee says.
8.22 am: A five-member TMC MPs’ delegation from West Bengal met farmers at the Singhu border on Wednesday, to show their support against the Centre’s three farm laws, reports The Indian Express.
8.18 am: Farmers’ union Kisan Sena announces that thousands of its members from western Uttar Pradesh will march to Delhi today in support of the Centre’s new agriculture laws, reports PTI.
“We have written to the authorities concerned for permission regarding our march to Delhi but have not got reply,” Kisan Sena convener Thakur Gauri Shankar Singh tells PTI. “In any case, around 20,000 of Kisan Sena supporters will be en route to Delhi to meet Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Thursday.”
8.05 am: Protesting farmers say that they’d accept government’s latest invite for talks if the proposal talks about “legalising” minimum support price system, reports News18.
“There is an attempt to break the protest by holding talks with organisations that have nothing to do with it,” Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav says....
