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Published : Sep 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST

Updated : Sep 25, 2020, 10:56 PM IST

22:51 September 25

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Rahul Gandhi interacts with farmers, opposes farm bills

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today spoke to farmers across the country via video-conferencing and claimed that they do not have any faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

"After speaking to the farmers, this much is clear that they don't have any faith in the Modi government. Our voices are with that of our farmer brothers. Today, the whole country opposes these agriculture bills," Gandhi tweeted in Hindi.

22:49 September 25

Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee extends its 'rail roko' agitation in Punjab till Sept 29

Chandigarh: The Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee announced extending its 'rail roko' agitation in Punjab against three farm Bills till September 29.

The three-day agitation was scheduled to end on September 26.

"We have decided to extend our agitation till September 29. We want the government to resolve the issue of farm Bills," committee president Satnam Singh Pannu said over the phone.

The 'rail roko' agitation had started on Thursday, forcing the railway authorities to suspend the operation of special passenger trains in the state.

17:35 September 25

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot speaking to media

Farm bills passed in shameful manner: Raj CM Gehlot

Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today targeted the Centre over three farm bills, saying that they were introduced in Parliament without consulting mandi traders and opposition parties, and were passed in a shameful manner.

He claimed that all the provisions made in the bills are anti-farmer and the mandis will be destroyed.

"Why was the law made? Why was the minimum support price (MSP) not proposed? You can understand from it that the situation is very serious and the way these three bills were passed, it was also done in a shameful manner," Gehlot told reporters.

Attacking the government, he claimed, "These are people of fascist thinking and they do not believe in democracy. All the work is being done so that public attention can be diverted."

He said that bills were introduced without consulting mandi traders and opposition parties.

The chief minister said that it took 40-50 years for mandis to be established and the government took a decision to uproot them without consulting the traders in order to give benefit to big capitalists.

(PTI)    

17:27 September 25

Farmers hold protests in Kerala

Thiruvananthapuram: Farmers under the aegis of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) staged widespread protests in Kerala, alleging that the new legislation will hand over the country's agriculture sector to corporate giants.

Senior CPI(M) leader and Vice President of AIKS, S Ramachandran Pillai launched the protest in front of the Raj Bhavan here and said the new Agri bills will turn farmers into labourers of corporate giants.

17:15 September 25

Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal leads farmers' protest in Lambi

Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal leads farmers' protest in Lambi

Lambi: Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal drove a tractor while his wife and former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal sat beside him in Muktsar district.

Sukhbir led a tractor march from his residence in Badal village to Lambi where the party had organised a protest against the Bills.

17:08 September 25

Protest held in Punjab

Protest held in Punjab

Farmers from across Punjab launched their protest against the three Agriculture Bills. Since early morning, farmers from all over the state started gathering at designated roads across the state and stopping the movement of all traffic and requesting traders to keep their shops closed.

15:23 September 25

Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi opposes farm bills

Maharashtra Congress president and state minister Balasaheb Thorat said, "We oppose farm bills passed by the Parliament. Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi is also against it. We will decide not to implement it in the state."

14:22 September 25

Taking to his Twitter handle, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said: "The Modi government neither saw the agony of farmers nor felt their anguish. Come, stand with the farmers and workers in Bharat Bandh, resolve the struggle."

13:18 September 25

Punjabi singers along with farmers protest near Delhi-Amritsar highway against recent Farm Bills.

Singer Sippy Gill said," This ordinance is not farmer-friendly. The government should withdraw these anti-farmer ordinances. The sit-in protest will continue."

12:39 September 25

Farmers from National South Indian River Interlinking Farmers’ Association sit outside Collector's office in Trichy with human skulls, chained hands and nooses around their necks to demonstrate against recent Farm Bills.

12:28 September 25

Shiromani Akali Dal's Bikram Singh Majithia attends a protest in Amritsar against recent Farm Bills.

12:15 September 25

Members of Bhartiya Kisan Union block roads, stage protest near Delhi border against recent Farm Bills.

Additional DCP Noida says," We have diverted traffic so that people do not face any inconvenience."

12:02 September 25

Farmers in Karnataka protest "anti-farmer" policies

Farmers in Karnataka staged demonstrations across the state on Friday as part of a 'bandh' call given to protest the 'anti-farmer' policies of the central and state governments.

A large number of ryots from various parts of the state flocked to the state capital to take part in the demonstrations to register their protest against the
amendments to the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act and the Karnataka Land Reforms Act.

Amendment to APMC Act would allow farmers to sell their produce directly to any purchaser outside APMC or in other APMCs.

10:29 September 25

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav drives a tractor, as he takes part in the protest against Farm Bills passed in the Parliament. 

09:56 September 25

"Government has made our 'anndaata' a puppet through its 'fund daata'. Farm Bills are anti-farmer and have left them dejected. Government had said that they will double farmers' income by 2022 but these Bills will make them poorer. Agriculture sector has been corporatised," said Tejashwi Yadav, RJD leader.

09:51 September 25

Chilla area

RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) workers protest in Darbhanga, against Farm Bills, while riding buffaloes.

09:49 September 25

Police personnel deployed in Chilla area near Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border point, in wake of the nationwide protest called by farmers today against Agriculture Bills passed in the Parliament.

09:48 September 25

 UP on high alert ahead of farmers' agitation

A high alert has been sounded in western Uttar Pradesh for Friday when farmers' groups and opposition political parties have organised 'Bharat Bandh', against three farm bills passed by Parliament.

The agitation has brought together various farmers groups in the region against the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020, passed by Parliament during the curtailed monsoon session that ended on Wednesday.

09:46 September 25

 Delhi Police tightens security amid farmers' protest

The Delhi Police have tightened the security at the border areas in the wake of the Bharat Bandh called by over two dozen farmer organisations on Friday.

Barricades have been put in areas bordering Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, and the vehicles entering Delhi are being checked. The Delhi Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed at the Singhu border and Karnal road (Haryana) as a precautionary measure.

"Our teams are alert and vigilant at the border areas and the staff has been deployed at strategic locations in the wake of farmers' protest" said a senior police officer.

Deployment has also been made in Ghazipur, New Ashok Nagar, Seemapuri, Anand Vihar in East Delhi and Kalindi Kunj in South east Delhi in view of the farmers' protest.

Apart from border areas, the Delhi Police is also vigilant for the possible snap protests in Delhi. The Delhi Police earlier said that no demonstrations would be allowed in the national capital till September 30, citing an earlier order of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).

09:43 September 25

Members of Karnataka State Farmers' Association hold a protest near Bommanahalli on Karnataka-Tamil Nadu highway against Farm Bills passed in Parliament.

Police personnel deployed in the area to ensure law & order is maintained & COVID safety norms are followed during the protest.

09:31 September 25

Farmers, under the aegis of Bharatiya Kisan Union and Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI), block Amritsar-Delhi National Highway near Phillaur in Jalandhar, in protest against Farm Bills passed in the Parliament.

09:14 September 25

Police personnel deployed in Amritsar city in the wake of farmers protest today, against Farm Bills passed in the Parliament. 

ACP says, "Security forces have been deployed at every crossroad and level crossing in the entire city so that no untoward incident takes place."

07:26 September 25

Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee continues their 'rail roko' agitation in Amritsar, in protest against the Farm Bills.  

The Committee is holding the 'rail roko' agitation from September 24 to 26 against the Bills.

07:13 September 25

Northern Railway cancels some trains due to farmers' agitation in Punjab

Keeping in view the farmers' agitation in Punjab against agriculture bills, some trains operated by Northern Railway will remain cancelled or partially cancelled, as per Deepak Kumar, Chief Public Relation Officers (CPRO) of the zone.

The 04652 Amritsar-Jaynagar Express has been cancelled on September 25. Consequently, the 04651 Jaynagar-Amritsar Express will also remain cancelled on September 27.

The 02058/02057 New Delhi - Una Himachal special train journey commencing on September 25 will be short terminated at/short originate from Chandigarh.

The 02904 Amritsar-Mumbai Central Special train journey commencing on September 24, 25 and 26 will short originate from Ambala instead of journey commencing on September 25, 26 and 27.

06:25 September 25

Bharat Bandh LIVE Updates

New Delhi: Over two dozen farmer organisations have announced support to the 'Bandh' call on Friday to protest against the farm Bills passed by Parliament amid massive protests from 18 political parties.

The 31 farmer organisations in Punjab and Haryana are already on protest and come Friday the organisations want to convey their concerns to the government.

V.M. Singh, convener of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, who is from central UP, said "There will be nationwide unrest if MSP is not guaranteed and the food security of the poor is handed over to multinationals and corporates," he said while appealing to President Ram Nath Kovind not to give assent to these Bills.

The same demand has been raised by 18 parties who met the President on Wednesday and requested him to return the Bills for reconsideration of the House.

Avik Saha of Jai Kisan Andolan said, "We have been trying to engage democratically with the government. After the ordinances were issued, hundreds and thousands of letters have been sent to the Prime Minister. But even in Parliament, this government has refused listen".

Farmers' unions have requested farmers to come out in open to oppose the legislation as Bharatiya Kisan Union said "On September 25 there will be farmers' curfew, blockade and till purchase of produce as per MSP is guaranteed in the law the agitation will go on."

Rakesh Tikait of the BKU has appealed its members to come out in large numbers.

Farmers unions in Punjab are claiming that it is due to their pressure that Akali leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned as a minister from the Cabinet but the real success will be when the law is repealed. The most vociferous protests are in Haryana and Punjab.

The farmers' unions say that the problem with the Bills goes beyond MSP to the whole issue of phasing out the �mandis' as farmers are far more vulnerable to exploitation outside the �mandi' system and they are producers, not agri-businesses.

Hannan Mollah, of All India Kisan Sabha, an affiliate of the Left parties, said, "How can a small farmer negotiate a fair deal with the big corporates?"

The farmers have received support from 18 parties including the Congress which has governments in four states, TMC in West Bengal, Left in Kerala, AAP in Delhi, TRS in Telangana while the BJD has also demanded the Bills be sent to a select committee.

The farmers are opposing the Bills passed by the government as the Upper House gave the nod to the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020.

(IANS Report)

Also Read: Punjab CM appeals to farmers to maintain law and order during 'Bharat Bandh'

22:51 September 25

  • किसानों से बातचीत करके एक बात साफ़ हो गयी- उन्हें मोदी सरकार पर रत्ती भर भी भरोसा नहीं है।

    किसान भाइयों की बुलंद आवाज़ के साथ हम सब की आवाज़ भी जुड़ी है और आज पूरा देश मिलकर इन कृषि क़ानूनों का विरोध करता है।#ISupportBharatBandh pic.twitter.com/r2Xhuy10wf

    — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) September 25, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data=" ">

Rahul Gandhi interacts with farmers, opposes farm bills

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today spoke to farmers across the country via video-conferencing and claimed that they do not have any faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

"After speaking to the farmers, this much is clear that they don't have any faith in the Modi government. Our voices are with that of our farmer brothers. Today, the whole country opposes these agriculture bills," Gandhi tweeted in Hindi.

22:49 September 25

Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee extends its 'rail roko' agitation in Punjab till Sept 29

Chandigarh: The Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee announced extending its 'rail roko' agitation in Punjab against three farm Bills till September 29.

The three-day agitation was scheduled to end on September 26.

"We have decided to extend our agitation till September 29. We want the government to resolve the issue of farm Bills," committee president Satnam Singh Pannu said over the phone.

The 'rail roko' agitation had started on Thursday, forcing the railway authorities to suspend the operation of special passenger trains in the state.

17:35 September 25

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot speaking to media

Farm bills passed in shameful manner: Raj CM Gehlot

Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today targeted the Centre over three farm bills, saying that they were introduced in Parliament without consulting mandi traders and opposition parties, and were passed in a shameful manner.

He claimed that all the provisions made in the bills are anti-farmer and the mandis will be destroyed.

"Why was the law made? Why was the minimum support price (MSP) not proposed? You can understand from it that the situation is very serious and the way these three bills were passed, it was also done in a shameful manner," Gehlot told reporters.

Attacking the government, he claimed, "These are people of fascist thinking and they do not believe in democracy. All the work is being done so that public attention can be diverted."

He said that bills were introduced without consulting mandi traders and opposition parties.

The chief minister said that it took 40-50 years for mandis to be established and the government took a decision to uproot them without consulting the traders in order to give benefit to big capitalists.

(PTI)    

17:27 September 25

Farmers hold protests in Kerala

Thiruvananthapuram: Farmers under the aegis of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) staged widespread protests in Kerala, alleging that the new legislation will hand over the country's agriculture sector to corporate giants.

Senior CPI(M) leader and Vice President of AIKS, S Ramachandran Pillai launched the protest in front of the Raj Bhavan here and said the new Agri bills will turn farmers into labourers of corporate giants.

17:15 September 25

Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal leads farmers' protest in Lambi

Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal leads farmers' protest in Lambi

Lambi: Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal drove a tractor while his wife and former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal sat beside him in Muktsar district.

Sukhbir led a tractor march from his residence in Badal village to Lambi where the party had organised a protest against the Bills.

17:08 September 25

Protest held in Punjab

Protest held in Punjab

Farmers from across Punjab launched their protest against the three Agriculture Bills. Since early morning, farmers from all over the state started gathering at designated roads across the state and stopping the movement of all traffic and requesting traders to keep their shops closed.

15:23 September 25

Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi opposes farm bills

Maharashtra Congress president and state minister Balasaheb Thorat said, "We oppose farm bills passed by the Parliament. Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi is also against it. We will decide not to implement it in the state."

14:22 September 25

Taking to his Twitter handle, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said: "The Modi government neither saw the agony of farmers nor felt their anguish. Come, stand with the farmers and workers in Bharat Bandh, resolve the struggle."

13:18 September 25

Punjabi singers along with farmers protest near Delhi-Amritsar highway against recent Farm Bills.

Singer Sippy Gill said," This ordinance is not farmer-friendly. The government should withdraw these anti-farmer ordinances. The sit-in protest will continue."

12:39 September 25

Farmers from National South Indian River Interlinking Farmers’ Association sit outside Collector's office in Trichy with human skulls, chained hands and nooses around their necks to demonstrate against recent Farm Bills.

12:28 September 25

Shiromani Akali Dal's Bikram Singh Majithia attends a protest in Amritsar against recent Farm Bills.

12:15 September 25

Members of Bhartiya Kisan Union block roads, stage protest near Delhi border against recent Farm Bills.

Additional DCP Noida says," We have diverted traffic so that people do not face any inconvenience."

12:02 September 25

Farmers in Karnataka protest "anti-farmer" policies

Farmers in Karnataka staged demonstrations across the state on Friday as part of a 'bandh' call given to protest the 'anti-farmer' policies of the central and state governments.

A large number of ryots from various parts of the state flocked to the state capital to take part in the demonstrations to register their protest against the
amendments to the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act and the Karnataka Land Reforms Act.

Amendment to APMC Act would allow farmers to sell their produce directly to any purchaser outside APMC or in other APMCs.

10:29 September 25

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav drives a tractor, as he takes part in the protest against Farm Bills passed in the Parliament. 

09:56 September 25

"Government has made our 'anndaata' a puppet through its 'fund daata'. Farm Bills are anti-farmer and have left them dejected. Government had said that they will double farmers' income by 2022 but these Bills will make them poorer. Agriculture sector has been corporatised," said Tejashwi Yadav, RJD leader.

09:51 September 25

Chilla area

RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) workers protest in Darbhanga, against Farm Bills, while riding buffaloes.

09:49 September 25

Police personnel deployed in Chilla area near Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border point, in wake of the nationwide protest called by farmers today against Agriculture Bills passed in the Parliament.

09:48 September 25

 UP on high alert ahead of farmers' agitation

A high alert has been sounded in western Uttar Pradesh for Friday when farmers' groups and opposition political parties have organised 'Bharat Bandh', against three farm bills passed by Parliament.

The agitation has brought together various farmers groups in the region against the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020, passed by Parliament during the curtailed monsoon session that ended on Wednesday.

09:46 September 25

 Delhi Police tightens security amid farmers' protest

The Delhi Police have tightened the security at the border areas in the wake of the Bharat Bandh called by over two dozen farmer organisations on Friday.

Barricades have been put in areas bordering Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, and the vehicles entering Delhi are being checked. The Delhi Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed at the Singhu border and Karnal road (Haryana) as a precautionary measure.

"Our teams are alert and vigilant at the border areas and the staff has been deployed at strategic locations in the wake of farmers' protest" said a senior police officer.

Deployment has also been made in Ghazipur, New Ashok Nagar, Seemapuri, Anand Vihar in East Delhi and Kalindi Kunj in South east Delhi in view of the farmers' protest.

Apart from border areas, the Delhi Police is also vigilant for the possible snap protests in Delhi. The Delhi Police earlier said that no demonstrations would be allowed in the national capital till September 30, citing an earlier order of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).

09:43 September 25

Members of Karnataka State Farmers' Association hold a protest near Bommanahalli on Karnataka-Tamil Nadu highway against Farm Bills passed in Parliament.

Police personnel deployed in the area to ensure law & order is maintained & COVID safety norms are followed during the protest.

09:31 September 25

Farmers, under the aegis of Bharatiya Kisan Union and Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI), block Amritsar-Delhi National Highway near Phillaur in Jalandhar, in protest against Farm Bills passed in the Parliament.

09:14 September 25

Police personnel deployed in Amritsar city in the wake of farmers protest today, against Farm Bills passed in the Parliament. 

ACP says, "Security forces have been deployed at every crossroad and level crossing in the entire city so that no untoward incident takes place."

07:26 September 25

Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee continues their 'rail roko' agitation in Amritsar, in protest against the Farm Bills.  

The Committee is holding the 'rail roko' agitation from September 24 to 26 against the Bills.

07:13 September 25

Northern Railway cancels some trains due to farmers' agitation in Punjab

Keeping in view the farmers' agitation in Punjab against agriculture bills, some trains operated by Northern Railway will remain cancelled or partially cancelled, as per Deepak Kumar, Chief Public Relation Officers (CPRO) of the zone.

The 04652 Amritsar-Jaynagar Express has been cancelled on September 25. Consequently, the 04651 Jaynagar-Amritsar Express will also remain cancelled on September 27.

The 02058/02057 New Delhi - Una Himachal special train journey commencing on September 25 will be short terminated at/short originate from Chandigarh.

The 02904 Amritsar-Mumbai Central Special train journey commencing on September 24, 25 and 26 will short originate from Ambala instead of journey commencing on September 25, 26 and 27.

06:25 September 25

Bharat Bandh LIVE Updates

New Delhi: Over two dozen farmer organisations have announced support to the 'Bandh' call on Friday to protest against the farm Bills passed by Parliament amid massive protests from 18 political parties.

The 31 farmer organisations in Punjab and Haryana are already on protest and come Friday the organisations want to convey their concerns to the government.

V.M. Singh, convener of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, who is from central UP, said "There will be nationwide unrest if MSP is not guaranteed and the food security of the poor is handed over to multinationals and corporates," he said while appealing to President Ram Nath Kovind not to give assent to these Bills.

The same demand has been raised by 18 parties who met the President on Wednesday and requested him to return the Bills for reconsideration of the House.

Avik Saha of Jai Kisan Andolan said, "We have been trying to engage democratically with the government. After the ordinances were issued, hundreds and thousands of letters have been sent to the Prime Minister. But even in Parliament, this government has refused listen".

Farmers' unions have requested farmers to come out in open to oppose the legislation as Bharatiya Kisan Union said "On September 25 there will be farmers' curfew, blockade and till purchase of produce as per MSP is guaranteed in the law the agitation will go on."

Rakesh Tikait of the BKU has appealed its members to come out in large numbers.

Farmers unions in Punjab are claiming that it is due to their pressure that Akali leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned as a minister from the Cabinet but the real success will be when the law is repealed. The most vociferous protests are in Haryana and Punjab.

The farmers' unions say that the problem with the Bills goes beyond MSP to the whole issue of phasing out the �mandis' as farmers are far more vulnerable to exploitation outside the �mandi' system and they are producers, not agri-businesses.

Hannan Mollah, of All India Kisan Sabha, an affiliate of the Left parties, said, "How can a small farmer negotiate a fair deal with the big corporates?"

The farmers have received support from 18 parties including the Congress which has governments in four states, TMC in West Bengal, Left in Kerala, AAP in Delhi, TRS in Telangana while the BJD has also demanded the Bills be sent to a select committee.

The farmers are opposing the Bills passed by the government as the Upper House gave the nod to the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020.

(IANS Report)

Also Read: Punjab CM appeals to farmers to maintain law and order during 'Bharat Bandh'

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