9.56 am: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan moves resolution against the farm laws in the state. Vijayan says the farmers’ protest wou...
9.56 am: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan moves resolution against the farm laws in the state. Vijayan says the farmers’ protest would affect the state, reports ANI. He adds that that the state will starve if the supply of food items from other states stops.
The current situation makes it clear that if this agitation continues, it will seriously affect Kerala. There is no doubt that Kerala will starve if the supply of food items from other states stops: State Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan#FarmLaws https://t.co/hZKwowdmsV pic.twitter.com/4I8KkqnON9
— ANI (@ANI) December 31, 2020
9.52 am: Kisan Ekta Morcha says that a tractor march, scheduled for December 31, has been postponed. It adds that the march is not cancelled.
9.44 am: Farmers continued their protest against the farm laws at Delhi’s borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh as the agitation enters the 36th day, reports the Hindustan Times. The borders with Uttar Pradesh at Chilla and Ghazipur remained closed on Thursday for those coming from Noida and Ghaziabad.
Here are the top updates from Wednesday
- The Centre, after its sixth meeting with the farmers’ unions, said that it had arrived at consensus on two out of four matters flagged by them. Earlier in the meeting, the government said that it could form a committee to deliberate on their demands related to the agricultural laws.
- The Congress and the Shiromani...