The social media platform said that a writ appeal challenging govt’s blocking orders remains pending and called for making the order public to enhance transparency.
Haryana police, however, says it has no such information yet about death of a farmer during the confrontation earlier Wednesday at Khanauri between cops and agitating farmers.
Monday, the farmers’ groups had rejected the government’s previous proposal for five-year contracts and guaranteed support prices for produce such as corn, cotton and pulses.
Protest leaders say ministers told them offer of legal guarantee of MSP for 5 crops was for all farmers but it later emerged that it was only for those who shifted from paddy cultivation.
The farmers said that the Centre's plan to buy maize, pulses and cotton crops on MSP for five years in unlimited quantity was 'not in favour' of the farmers.
In 2020, the BJP went on an offensive, branding protesters as ‘Khalistanis’. However, this time around, in an election year, both BJP & govt have been more mellow in their approach.
While Dallewal was in the headlines Thursday after a comment on putting brakes on PM's popularity, Pandher courted controversy during 2020-21 protest for leading farmers into Delhi.
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