Farm Laws
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Samyukt Kisan Morcha begins three-day protest, demands sacking of Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra
The organisation is also demanding a legal guarantee on minimum support prices and compensation for families of those who died during the farmers’ protest.
Scroll Staff
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Repealing farm laws unfair to ‘silent majority’ of farmers who supported reforms, SC panel report
The committee had submitted its report eight months before the laws were repealed, but it was only made public on Monday.
Scroll Staff
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‘Promises on Minimum Support Price unfulfilled’: Farmers to protest across India on March 21
Minimum Support Price is the rate at which the government buys farm produce. Farmers want it to be extended to all crops.
Scroll Staff
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In Punjab, not everyone is celebrating the repeal of farm laws. Some are grieving for their losses
The protests against the three laws took the heaviest toll on small or marginal farmers and landless labourers.
Safwat Zargar
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Punjab elections: Farmer leader Gurnam Singh Charuni launches his political party
Charuni said his Sanyukt Sangharsh Party will try to contest all the 117 seats in the state.
Scroll Staff
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Why the Modi government is unlikely to repeat the farm laws pullback with the citizenship law
Unlike farmers, Muslims are not a core voter base for the BJP. Modi will not lose anything by plainly ignoring them.
Angshuman Choudhury
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Caught on camera: Roadside vendor in Noida uses water from drain to clean fruits
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Analysis: Narendra Modi’s farm law repeal will bring new energy to India’s embattled civil society
This victory should give citizens courage to resume righteous battles and start new ones.
Apoorvanand
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From ‘Khalistani’ agenda to a move in ‘national interest’: Modi farm law repeal angers supporters
Given the prime minister’s strongman image, the sudden climbdown could hurt the BJP’s prospects.
Scroll Staff
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Analysis: In Modi’s repeal of the contentious farm laws, a triumph of the power of collective action
The government must abandon its top-down, coercive style and pursue deliberative, decentralised models of governance.
Deepanshu Mohan
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‘We saw farmers being literally crushed’: Anger against BJP cuts across caste, religion in rural UP
The Union minister implicated in the violence blamed it on Sikh separatists, but on the ground, other than the upper castes, few seem to buy his claim.
Arunabh Saikia
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‘Premeditated murder’: In Lakhimpur Kheri, farmers blame Union minister and son for deaths
The minister’s son not only led a convoy of SUVs that mowed down protesting farmers, he even shot dead a young man, farmers allege.
Arunabh Saikia