8.06 am : Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh lambasts the Bharatiya Janata Party for using “malicious and derogatory terms” against the...
8.06 am: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh lambasts the Bharatiya Janata Party for using “malicious and derogatory terms” against the protesting farmers, reports The Indian Express. The Congress leader asks the saffron leaders to stop maligning the farmers’ agitation and their “genuine fight for justice” by labelling them “urban Naxals”, “Khalistanis” and “hooligans”.
“If the BJP cannot distinguish between anguished citizens fighting for their survival and terrorists/militants/hooligans, it should give up all pretense of being a people’s party,” Singh says in a statement. “A party which regards citizens exercising their democratic right of protest as Naxals and terrorists has lost all right to rule over those citizens.”
8.02 am: Residents of Mohali in Punjab held demonstrations on Sunday in support of the farmers who are protesting the new agricultural reforms, reports The Indian Express. “The union government must repeal the laws with immediate effect,” said Akwinder Singh Gosal, one of the protesters at Phase 3B-2 market in the city. “These laws will ruin the farmers. The farmers who are protesting are making genuine demands.”
8 am: At least 10 political prisoners in Kolkata, West Bengal, started a hunger strike on Sunday to express their solidarity with the protesting farmers, reports PTI. In a statement released from the Dumdum Central Jail, the prisoners described the laws...
