Unseasonal rains & strong winds have ruined fields in southwest Punjab. Bathinda saw rainfall 3,900% above normal over 24-30 March, though officials say only 10% of farms severely affected.
Support prices kept unchanged, BKU (Charuni), BKU (Tikait) & SKM said they will hold Kisan Mahapanchayats in January if demands aren't met even as CM Khattar announced a review panel.
The BKU leader Monday said that a big panchayat will be organised in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar on 5 September to interact with farmers over government's policies and work.
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar had asserted the new laws would bring revolutionary changes, and the government was ready to talks to the protestors.
BKU leader Rakesh Tikait stressed that the Centre will have to come forward with a proposal for talks to resume with farmers who 'will not step back till a solution is found'.
By saving the farmers' protest from the clutches of a violent Republic Day rally and taking on the Adityanath govt in UP, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait has left Indian liberals in a fix.
Chaduni met Congress & AAP leaders to get them to join hands with the farmers’ agitation, but the protesters have long held that their movement is apolitical.
The conventional wisdom is that if a govt fails to improve the lot of the voters, it is punished. Kumar presided over an economic disaster for 20 years and was re-elected by a landslide.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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