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.
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.
Ministers say violence during tractor rally has almost ended the sanctity of peaceful farmers' protest, the 'unions have breached the government’s trust'.
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.
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.
The issue of inequality has assumed the blazing limelight at a time when inequality in India is said to be higher than it was in the British Raj. It's a ripe situation for half-truths and incendiary statements.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
During the violent march rajdeep Sardesai was spinning fake stories, apparently reporting from the ground. I respected this guy few years back. I regret that I trusted these journalists. First Nidhi, then Netaji and now this. It is a pattern of stupidity or viciousness?
During the violent march rajdeep Sardesai was spinning fake stories, apparently reporting from the ground. I respected this guy few years back. I regret that I trusted these journalists. First Nidhi, then Netaji and now this. It is a pattern of stupidity or viciousness?