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Friday, August 1, 2025
TopicTractor Rally

Topic: Tractor Rally

Delhi Police to issue look out circulars against farmer leaders named in FIRs

The farmer leaders will have to surrender their passports. Delhi Police has registered 25 FIRs, including against over 30 farm union leaders, who were involved in talks with Modi govt.

Annadata or anarchist? Belligerent TV channels pointed fingers, demanded justice

Reporters questioned men who rode into Delhi on tractors, like cowboys in the wild West, and learnt that some had come for protest tourism and tractor sightseeing.

‘We had intelligence, knew intention, but allowed rally in good faith’ — Delhi Police chief

Commissioner S.N. Srivastava says ‘all farmer leaders’ flouted agreement they signed with Delhi Police, and that ‘no culprit will be spared’.

‘Jai jawan vs Jai kisan’ during Republic Day violence, Budget to address ‘Opposition deficit’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Fresh talks offer ‘unlikely’ now — Modi govt could harden stand on farm laws after violence

Ministers say violence during tractor rally has almost ended the sanctity of peaceful farmers' protest, the 'unions have breached the government’s trust'.

Long before farmers’ tractor parade, Babri Masjid movement also waded into Republic Day row

The non-observance and/or boycott call of Republic Day by a coalition of Muslim organisations in 1987 can't be compared with the farmers’ tractor parade of 2021. But there is a link.

Republic needles Mamata on ‘Jai Shri Ram’, Aaj Tak freezes in Kashmir

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Delhi Police clear 3 routes for farmers’ Republic Day tractor rally

According to Special CP Dependra Pathak, farmers and the police have agreed in principle on the timing of the rally and terms & conditions, which are binding on the participants.

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