Ram Iqbal Singh also urged Modi govt to enact a law guaranteeing MSP to farmers, adding that denial of MSP to farmers for their produce should be made a cognisable offence.
PM Modi paid floral tributes to former PM Vajpayee on his birth anniversary. As Modi was leaving the venue, AAP's Sanjay Singh & Mann raised slogans, demanding repeal farm laws.
Farmer leader Kulwant Singh Sandhu said that a meeting of farmer leaders from across India would be held Wednesday where a decision on the govt's talks offer will be taken.
Joined by Congress and Left parties, the RJD leader extended support to the nationwide strike called by the farmers organisations on 8 December against the new farm laws
The Modi govt claims the three new laws are re-creating the 1991 moment for agriculture. But those reforms were premised on decentralisation and deregulation.
The consequence of the Modi govt skipping steps of a deliberative democracy is that the farm bill’s policy argument plays out in emotions instead of economics.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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