By M L Satyan Coimbatore, Feb 19, 2024: Farmer Protest-1 witnessed more than 700 deaths. Now the Farmer Protest-2 has already witnessed one death and hundreds of injured farmers. The scenes reported by some YouTube channels are heart-rending. The inhuman ways the food-producers/providers of this country are treated bother meContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Nov 20, 2021: Our farmers know the way, go the way and show the way! Thanks to their relentless struggle and their great sacrifices, for all of us – the three anti-farmer laws have finally been repealed. For more than a year now – with blood,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov 19, 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise announcement November 19 to repeal the controversial farm laws was welcomed with caution by farmers and their supporters across India. Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Joint Farmers’ Force), a coalition of more than 40 farmers’ unions formed inContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Oct 18, 2021: Farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh have been camping at several border points in Delhi since 26 November 2020 demanding repeal of three laws Modi government passed in Parliament in September 2020. From the outset, these laws were fatedContinue Reading
New Delhi: Ahead of a march planned by farmers near Parliament during the monsoon session, the Delhi police’s meeting with the farmer unions on July 18 remained inconclusive. A senior police officer said they had requested the farmers to reconsider their protest call citing the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA)Continue Reading
New Delhi: Thousands of farmers marking the seven-month of their agitation against three agricultural reform laws on June 26 marched to the residences of state governors. They submitted a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind through the governors, alleging an ‘undeclared emergency’ in the country. As June 26 is alsoContinue Reading
New Delhi: Indicating that they have no intention of vacating the protest site anytime soon, farmers at the Singhu border have erected shelters — sheds with metal frames and bamboo huts — fitted with air-coolers or air-conditioners (ACs) to tackle Delhi’s searing summer. Even tractor trolleys, which have become aContinue Reading
New Delhi: As India continues to register a spike in cases of coronavirus, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on April 10 appealed to the protesting farmers at the Delhi borders to call off their months-long agitation, saying that the government is ready for a discussion as soon as theyContinue Reading
New Delhi: A 49-year-old farmer from Haryana’s Hisar district on March 7 allegedly hanged himself from a tree, about seven kilometers from the Tikri border protest site, police said. The farmer, who supported the agitation against Centre’s new farm laws, has purportedly left a suicide note, they said. “The victim,Continue Reading
Barnala: Jagseer Singh Chhiniwal, a farmer leader from BKU Sidhupur, has been at the Singhu border since November 26. Back in his village Chhiniwal in Barnala, the villagers have ensure that his crops are well taken care of. “I will go back after completing 100 days at least. I hadContinue Reading