Breaking: Centre Repeals Farm Laws, PM Requests Farmers To Call Off Protests
Maybe something was lacking in our tapasya, which is why we could not convince some farmers about the laws: Narendra Modi.
Maybe something was lacking in our tapasya, which is why we could not convince some farmers about the laws: Narendra Modi.
Madhya Pradesh farmer union leader’s son gets married at a farmers’ protest site in Rewa, with an intention to send a message to the Centre.
Rihanna tweeted about the farmers’ protest in India, Kangana Ranaut calls her a fool.
Gita Gopinath on new farm laws: Chief Economist at IMF, said that the new agricultural laws enacted by the government of India have the potential to increase farmers’ income.
Through all of 2020, a year bookended by protests, women were the face of protests everywhere. Need the competence of women be thus doubted?Â
“They do not even know what they want and what the problem with the farm laws is,” said Hema Malini.
Opposition leaders have previously claimed that the reforms were passed in Parliament in an “undemocratic” manner. Their campaign to collect farmers’ signatures on their proposal to the President was reportedly launched in September.
Other Indian artists – spanning the Punjabi and Hindi entertainment industries – have also extended solidarity to the farmers’ protests on social media.
The two began a medicine collection drive for farmers in the last week of November, receiving a thundering response from people who sent in medical supplies and other essentials, including handwritten messages of solidarity, for the protestors.
Echoing the farmers’ demands from Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi border, the letter asks for the farm legislation to be repealed and for farmer-friendly policies to be introduced.Â