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.

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· Aug 18, 2022 · 01:35 pm

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The committee had submitted its report eight months before the laws were repealed, but it was only made public on Monday.

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· Mar 22, 2022 · 03:32 pm

‘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.

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· Mar 14, 2022 · 10:11 pm

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

· Dec 21, 2021 · 09:00 am

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.

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· Dec 18, 2021 · 01:41 pm

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

· Nov 24, 2021 · 09:00 am

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

· Nov 20, 2021 · 09:00 am

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.

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· Nov 19, 2021 · 08:31 pm

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

· Nov 19, 2021 · 04:51 pm

‘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

· Oct 06, 2021 · 09:53 am

‘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

· Oct 05, 2021 · 07:30 am