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Farmers Demand Talks with CM as Protests Continue

Farmers and stakeholders involved in the paddy procurement process in Punjab are set to meet with Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday to discuss their concerns and demands. The farmers are demanding that the government lift the produce and facilitate the arrival of 2.7 lakh tonnes of paddy that have arrived in the state mandis so far. They are also …

Chandigarh

9 months, 4 weeks ago

Farmers’ attempts to unite hit a stalemate

Hindustan Times

Patiala : The six-member committee formed by the Samyukta Kisan Morch, an umbrella body of 37 farmer organisation, is yet to hold talks with SKM and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, which are spearheading the “Delhi Chalo” protest. “So far, they have not held talks with us,” said Sarwan Singh Pandher of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee. Farmer factions – SKM, BKU …

Delhi Protest Committee Punjab Skm Singh Hold

9 months, 4 weeks ago

Farmers’ protest 2.0: New vanguards emerge as veterans pushed to margins

Hindustan Times

Chandigarh : The farmers’ agitation in Punjab has witnessed a change of guard as leaders who were at the forefront of the 13-month protest at the Delhi borders between November 2020 and December 2021 have been pushed to the margins and new elements with fringe support are now calling the shots. Under the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, 17 …

Delhi Political Farmers Leaders Protest Punjab Skm

10 months ago

More unions join stir, up ante over farmer’s death

Hindustan Times

The death of a 21-year-old protester at the Punjab-Haryana border appeared to galvanise disparate farm unions on Thursday as cultivator groups upped the ante of their two-week-long protests, demanding murder charges against the police, as well as the chief minister and home minister of Haryana, and announcing a slew of new joint programmes. The call for intensified protests – including …

Delhi Farmers Border Haryana Union Protest Minister

10 months ago

Farmers protest 2024 updates: Centre-Farmers to hold 4th round of talks today

The Hindu

February 18, 2024 20:09 Our struggle will continue even if the model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha elections comes into force, says farm leader Rajewal The Samyukta Kisan Morcha will gherao the residences of BJP leaders in Punjab for three days from Tuesday to press the Centre into accepting the farmers’ demands. SKM leader Balbir Singh Rajewal said …

Skm

10 months, 1 week ago

Farmers’ Bharat Bandh call leaves commuters stranded as buses stay off roads in Punjab

Hindustan Times

Commuters in Punjab faced inconvenience on Friday as buses stayed off the roads in response to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s Bharat Bandh call to pressurise the central government to accept farmers’ demands, including a legal guarantee of the minimum support price. Bus service paralysed in Malwa Normal life was hit in southwest Punjab districts as all private and the government-run …

Farmers Union Punjab Bathinda Skm Response Jalandhar

10 months, 1 week ago

SKM bandh call: Commuters left stranded as many buses stay off roads in Punjab

New Indian Express

CHANDIGARH: Commuters in Punjab faced inconvenience on Friday as many buses stayed off the roads in response to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha's call for a 'Bharat Bandh' to press the government to accept farmers' demands including a legal guarantee of MSP. Punjab Roadways, Punbus and PRTC Contract Workers' Union are supporting the Samyukta Kisan Morcha's bandh call. Many farmer bodies …

Union Punjab Skm Bandh Kisan Bharatiya Kisan Union Many Bus

10 months, 1 week ago

BKU (Ugrahan), SKM rally behind protesters after police action at Punjab and Haryana border

Hindustan Times

A day after the police in Haryana fired tear gas shells on farmers marching towards the national capital on their tractors, several prominent farmer organisations on Wednesday rallied behind the protestors to show their solidarity. Bharti Kisan Union and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a group of 37 farm unions, decided to hold separate protests on rail tracks and toll plazas …

Delhi Farmers Border Haryana Police Action State Bku

1 year, 6 months ago

Farmers block key highway over MSP for sunflower seeds

Hindustan Times

Farmers blocked traffic on the Delhi-Chandigarh highway on Monday after holding a mahapanchayat at Pipli grain market in Kurukshetra district to press for a minimum support price for sunflower seeds. Long queues of trucks and other vehicles were seen near the Ambala Cantt bus stand as vehicles took alternative routes and several of them were Farmer leaders including Rakesh Tikait …

Travel Traffic Delhi Farmers Leaders Highway Ladwa

1 year, 7 months ago

Nihangs attack Church congregation in Amritsar accusing them of conversion while congregation pelts stones at them, two injured, police files FIR: Details

Op India

On May 21, a group of Nihangs allegedly attacked a congregation near Sikhpal Rana Ministries Church in the village Rajewal of district Amritsar. pic.twitter.com/W5h7VXvjlx — Nikhil Choudhary May 21, 2023 The Nihangs raised slogans against the church and accused them of forced conversions. Amritsar Rural SSP Satinder Singh, Superintendent of Police Jugraj Singh and police personnel from the nearby police …

Church Attack Conversion Forced Conversions Christian Singh Fir

1 year, 7 months ago

'Parkash Singh Badal Deeply Understood Punjab’s Link with Agriculture': Farmer Leaders Remember Akali Dal Giant

News 18

Punjab’s tallest political leader, Parkash Singh Badal, was also a farmer leader. I told him that it will be destructive for farmers and he did not go ahead with it.” He added: “He was a statesman, who listened to his opponents – a quality which is now lost.” Another farmer leader Harmeet Qadian took to Twitter after Badal’s demise. On …

Agriculture Farmers Punjab Sharma Singh Randhawa Farmer

2 years, 11 months ago

Congress approaches EC over raids on Punjab CM Channi's relatives

India Today

Congress on Thursday approached the Election Commission over the Enforcement Directorate raids on Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi's relative ahead of the upcoming polls. Congress leader Randeep Surjewala asked the EC to intervene and direct finance ministry and ED to stop politically motivated raids as they violate the Model Code of Conduct. The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at the …

Congress Punjab Raids Channi Punjab Cm Cm Channi

2 years, 11 months ago

Punjab Election 2022: Farmer groups SSM, SSP form alliance for upcoming polls

India TV News

Highlights SSP chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni has said that his party will contest 10 seats SSM has released another list of 17 candidates for the Punjab elections SSM has till now announced 47 candidates for the elections scheduled for February 20 The two farmer groups -- Balbir Singh Rajewal-led political outfit Sanyukt Samaj Morcha and Gurnam Singh Chaduni's Samyukt Sangharsh …

Election Punjab Singh Ssp Ssm Punjab Election Upcoming Polls

2 years, 11 months ago

Who will be Punjab chief minister: Channi, Sidhu, Captain, Mann or Rajewal?

India Today

With the Aam Aadmi Party announcing Lok Sabha MP Bhagwant Mann as its chief ministerial face, the electoral battle lines are now clearly demarcated in the Punjab Assembly election. The ruling Congress party has a problem of plenty with incumbent Charanjit Singh Channi refusing to cede ground to hawkish Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has bordered on challenging …

Delhi Dalit Captain Party Sikh Lok Sabha Bjp

2 years, 11 months ago

Punjab polls: Rajewal-led SSM enters into alliance with Chaduni faction

Hindustan Times

Chandigarh : The Balbir Singh Rajewal-led political outfit Sanyukt Samaj Morcha and Gurnam Singh Chaduni’s Sanyukt Sangharsh Party on Monday entered into a pre-poll arrangement for the February 20 Punjab assembly polls. The Balbir Singh Rajewal-led political outfit Sanyukt Samaj Morcha and Gurnam Singh Chaduni’s Sanyukt Sangharsh Party on Monday entered into a pre-poll arrangement for the February 20 Punjab …

Candidates Ludhiana Seats Punjab Singh Ssp Ssm

2 years, 11 months ago

Punjab polls: SSP threatens to field its candidates in 117 assembly seats amid seat-sharing roadblock with SSM

India Today

As the possible poll alliance with Aam Aadmi Party did not materialise in the run-up to the Punjab Assembly election, the Sanyukt Samaj Morcha is planning to go solo by contesting the upcoming polls in all 117 assembly constituencies. After AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal decided not to forge an alliance with SSM, Balbir Singh Rajewal and Gurnam Chaduni of …

Seats Punjab Ssp Ssm Nine Seats Rajewal Gurnam

2 years, 11 months ago

Youth Who Went To Canada For Employment Will Return: AAP's Kejriwal Promises ‘Developed & Prosperous’ Punjab

ABP News

Mohali: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the Aam Aadmi Party has prepared a 10-point “Punjab Model” to make the state developed and prosperous if it comes to power. “We will make such a prosperous Punjab that the youth, who went to Canada for employment will return in the next five years,” Kejriwal added. The AAP chief, who …

Punjab Aap Kejriwal Promises

2 years, 11 months ago

AAP Punjab President Mann Rules Out Alliance With SSM, Says Party Will Go to Polls with CM Face

News 18

Aam Aadmi Party Punjab president Bhagwat Mann on Sunday urged the people of the state to be cautious of those who practice hate politics during elections, and to use their vote without fear, greed, or influence. The AAP on Sunday ruled out chances of alliance with Sanyukt Samaj Morcha, farm outfit, and stressed that party will be the only one …

Party Punjab Mann Aap Ssm Rajewal

2 years, 11 months ago

Punjab Election 2022: Sanyukt Samaj Morcha Leader Balbir Rajewal Rules Out Alliance With AAP

ABP News

Chandigarh: Sanyukt Samaj Morcha leader Balbir Singh Rajewal on Sunday ruled out the alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party for next month's Punjab Assembly polls and said they will declare their candidates within a week. The Sanyukt Samaj Morcha leaders on Sunday held talks with farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni, who had launched the Sanyukt Sangharsh Party to contest the …

Candidates Morcha Rajewal Samaj Morcha Chaduni Ssm Leader

2 years, 11 months ago

Farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal says he has proof of AAP selling tickets in Punjab

Op India

Balbir Singh Rajewal, founder of Bhartiya Kisan Union and the political front of farmer unions Sanyukt Samaj Morcha, has alleged he has proof that Aam Aadmi Party is selling tickets in Punjab. AAP wants to take Punjab water to Delhi.” On the contrary, Raghav Chadha, co-in-charge, AAP Punjab, refuted the allegations that his party was taking money to distribute tickets …

Party Workers Punjab Ticket Jalandhar Aap Chadha

2 years, 11 months ago

Punjab Elections: Why the 'Farm Unions' Party' Has Its Task Cut Out

The Quint

Rajewal had supported AAP in the 2017 elections and he is said to have been in negotiations with the party this time as well. There was strong speculation among the farm unions that the AAP has offered the CM post to Rajewal and the deputy CM post to Harmeet Kadian. AAP, being non-committal on the CM's chair as well as …

Aap Unions Ssm Rajewal

2 years, 11 months ago

Ludhiana Court Blast-Linked SFJ Radical Jaswinder Singh Multani Arrested In Germany

ABP News

New Delhi: Jaswinder Singh Multani, a member of the banned radical group, Sikh For Justice was arrested in Germany in connection with the Ludhiana Court blast case, reported ANI. The agencies in Germany have been interrogating Multani following his arrest, suspecting his involvement in hatching conspiracy to carry out blasts in various cities of India, including Ludhiana. Multani’s name had …

India Germany Ludhiana Singh Multani Radical Jaswinder Singh Multan

2 years, 11 months ago

How Rajewal's SSM in Punjab is a new experiment in India's 30 years of neoliberalism

India Today

What’s in a name? GENESIS OF PUNJAB’S FARM MOVEMENT The three farm laws introduced by the BJP government ended up triggering an outburst waiting to explode over the neoliberal policy initiated, ironically, by Congress three decades ago. But those who know Punjab in general and the Sikhs in particular, especially the assertive Jat community, would also know that India’s most …

India Political Congress Party Sikh Hindi State

2 years, 11 months ago

Breakaway farmer unions say they will contest Punjab polls

Hindustan Times

Twenty-two farmer unions, that protested against the Centre’s now repealed farm laws under the banner of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, on Saturday jumped into the poll fray and announced a political outfit, the Sanyukt Samaj Morcha. The announcement came even as the SKM, the umbrella body of farmer unions that spearheaded the yearlong agitation against the three agriculture laws, distanced …

Congress Party State Punjab Singh Farmer Outfit

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Farmers Demand Talks with CM as Protests Continue

Farmers’ attempts to unite hit a stalemate

Farmers’ protest 2.0: New vanguards emerge as veterans pushed to margins

More unions join stir, up ante over farmer’s death

Farmers protest 2024 updates: Centre-Farmers to hold 4th round of talks today

Farmers’ Bharat Bandh call leaves commuters stranded as buses stay off roads in Punjab

SKM bandh call: Commuters left stranded as many buses stay off roads in Punjab

BKU (Ugrahan), SKM rally behind protesters after police action at Punjab and Haryana border

Farmers block key highway over MSP for sunflower seeds

Nihangs attack Church congregation in Amritsar accusing them of conversion while congregation pelts stones at them, two injured, police files FIR: Details

'Parkash Singh Badal Deeply Understood Punjab’s Link with Agriculture': Farmer Leaders Remember Akali Dal Giant

Congress approaches EC over raids on Punjab CM Channi's relatives

Punjab Election 2022: Farmer groups SSM, SSP form alliance for upcoming polls

Who will be Punjab chief minister: Channi, Sidhu, Captain, Mann or Rajewal?

Punjab polls: Rajewal-led SSM enters into alliance with Chaduni faction

Punjab polls: SSP threatens to field its candidates in 117 assembly seats amid seat-sharing roadblock with SSM

Youth Who Went To Canada For Employment Will Return: AAP's Kejriwal Promises ‘Developed & Prosperous’ Punjab

AAP Punjab President Mann Rules Out Alliance With SSM, Says Party Will Go to Polls with CM Face

Punjab Election 2022: Sanyukt Samaj Morcha Leader Balbir Rajewal Rules Out Alliance With AAP

Farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal says he has proof of AAP selling tickets in Punjab

Punjab Elections: Why the 'Farm Unions' Party' Has Its Task Cut Out

Ludhiana Court Blast-Linked SFJ Radical Jaswinder Singh Multani Arrested In Germany

How Rajewal's SSM in Punjab is a new experiment in India's 30 years of neoliberalism

Breakaway farmer unions say they will contest Punjab polls