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Farm laws protest: Sukhbir, Harsimrat detained in Chandigarh during Kisan March

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Published : Oct 1, 2020, 11:14 AM IST

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Updated : Oct 2, 2020, 7:06 AM IST

01:53 October 02

Former Union Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal and several party workers detained by police in Zirakpur, Mohali district during Kisan March of the party in protest against Farm Laws.

Former Union Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal and several party workers detained by police

Sukhbir, Harsimrat detained in Chandigarh during Kisan March

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal, former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur and several party workers were detained by police during Kisan March near Mullapur barrier here on Thursday.

However, they were released later.

SAD leaders were prevented from entering the city to hand over a memorandum for the President to ask for revocation of the three "black" laws on agriculture to the State Governor.

The police resorted to lathi-charge and use water cannons to disperse SAD workers during the Kisan March. Senior SAD leader Parkash Singh Badal said that the "brutal" lathi-charge on peaceful protesting workers made this painful and dark day for democracy in the country.

23:52 October 01

Cong demands spl Telangana assembly session to pass resolution against central farm laws

Hyderabad: Congress in Telangana on Thursday demanded that the TRS government convene a special session of the state assembly for passing a unanimous resolution against the "anti-farmer laws" recently enacted by the NDA government at the Centre.

Claiming that the opposition of TRS to the new farm law was an 'eyewash', state Congress president N Uttam Kumar Reddy said the party government should "prove its commitment towards the farmers of Telangana by immediately convening the special session also to pass the necessary legislation to "override" the contentious central laws.

22:19 October 01

SAD President Sukbhir Singh Badal detained

Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal and party's General Secretary Bikram Majithia, Prem Singh Chandumajra and Daljit Singh Cheema were detained by Chandigarh police at Mullanpur. SAD leaders were leading 'Kisan March' against the farm laws passed by the govt.

22:11 October 01

Centre should bring law for procurement at MSP: INLD

Indian National Lok Dal senior leader Abhay Singh Chautala on Thursday called upon people to back farmers against the Centre's agriculture-related laws and said the Union government should bring a legislation to ensure procurement of crops at the MSP. The INLD leader also claimed that he can go to "any extent" to fight for people's rights.

The INLD secretary-general said he will write to all farmers' organisations in the country to stand with farmers against the black laws brought by the Centre. The Centre should bring a law which guarantees a minimum support price (MSP) for a crop and a criminal case should be filed against those making purchase below that, he told reporters here while asking people to back farmers.

Taking a veiled dig at his nephew and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, who also holds the charge of the Haryana Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, the INLD leader said the government had promised that every single grain of crop will be purchased at the MSP.

21:11 October 01

Chandigarh police detain former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur

Chandigarh police detain former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur

Former Union Minister and Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Baadal has been detained by Chandigarh police on the Chandigarh-Zirakhpur border. Police resorted to lathi-charge on SAD workers to disperse their dharna. Dera Bassi MLA NK Sharma, Balwinder Bhundar and Youth Akali Dal (SAD) President Parambans Singh Romana were also taken into custody.

The party began a long struggle today to make the government roll back the black law.

18:15 October 01

Congress has space for people to express concerns, BJP has none: Kapil Sibal

Taking a dig at the BJP over its oldest ally Shiromani Akali Dal breaking ties with it on the farm bills issue, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Thursday said the saffron party's alliance politics was "falling apart" over legislations and the ruling NDA has turned into a "non-democratic alliance".

Sibal, who was among the 23 leaders who wrote to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi calling for organisational reforms, also slammed Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman for recently alluding to the letter writers and their alleged undermining of the party, saying, "The Congress still has space for people to express concerns, while the BJP has no such space". Sibal alleged that the BJP got the farm bills passed while riding "roughshod over the Opposition and (its own) allies".

18:03 October 01

Farm reform bills will rid farmers & farm sector of middlemen & other bottlenecks: Rijiju

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday launched a scathing attack on opposition parties for opposing the farm reform bills, saying that the legislations
will rid farmers and the farm sector of middlemen and other bottlenecks. The new farm legislation brought by the BJP-led NDA government will benefit the farmers throughout the country and after independence, the Modi government took a big step to improve the agri and allied sectors in the country, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Sports and Youth Affairs told reporters in the sideline of an official function.

17:02 October 01

MSP to stay and rise in coming years: Rajnath Singh

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asserted that Minimum Support Price (MSP) system will stay and will be continuously raised in coming years.

"I want to assure farmers MSP will stay and will be continuously raised in coming years," said Singh.

"As a farmer's son, I want to make it clear Modi govt will not do anything against farmers' interests. I appeal to all farmer organisations to come and talk to us to clarify issues; I've already begun such meetings. Tractors are as sacred to farmers as weapons are to soldiers and burning them is like insulting our farmers," he added.

15:54 October 01

Rahul Gandhi, Punjab CM to take part in two-day tractor rally

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will hold tractor rallies in Punjab and Haryana from October 3 to 5 to protest against the Centre's new farm laws, the party said. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary and in-charge of Punjab affairs, Harish Rawat, Pradesh Punjab Congress Committee president Sunil Jakhar, and all state ministers and Congress MLAs will join the protests, to give voice to the angst and pain of the farmers, whose livelihood and future has been put at stake by the central legislations.

According to a Punjab Congress spokesperson, the tractor rallies are expected to be supported by farmers' organisations and will cover more than 50 kms over three days. The rallies are scheduled to begin at around 11 am on each of the three days, and will be conducted amid strict COVID-19 protocols, said the spokesperson.

On October 3, the protest rally will cover a total distance of 22 km, starting with a public meeting at Badni Kalan (Nihal Singh Wala, Moga), before moving through Lopon (Nihal Singh Wala).

The rally will then move into Jagraon (Ludhiana), where it will be received at Chakar, Lakha and Manoke, culminating eventually in a public meeting Jattpura (Raikot, Ludhiana), said the spokesperson.

On October 4, Rahul Gandhi will travel by car to Bhawanigarh for a public meeting, before embarking on tractors to Samana (Patiala), where receptions will be held at Fatehgarh Chhana and Bahmna, before ending the day with a public meeting at a grain market in Samana.

On October 5, the protest will begin from Dudhan Sadhan (Patiala) with a public meeting, and the tractors will then travel 10 km to Pehowa border, from where Rahul Gandhi will enter Haryana, for a series of programmes there, said the spokesperson.

According to sources in Haryana Congress, Rahul Gandhi is likely to address rallies at Kaithal and Pipli in Kurukshetra district along the national highway on October 5 after which he will return to Delhi. Farmers in Punjab and Haryana have been protesting against the farm laws and the Congress has demanded their rollback.

15:37 October 01

Our party left everything to help farmers: Harsimrat Kaur Badal

"Shiromani Akali Dal is beginning a long struggle today to make the government roll back the black laws. The party left behind everything - alliance, post, government, relations - to become the voice of farmers, who have lost everything due to these Laws," said former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

Shiromani Akali Dal began three separate 'kisan marches' from three religious Takhts in Punjab to Chandigarh against new farm laws

13:50 October 01

Rail roko in Shambu

Farmers hold 'rail roko' in Shambu

Farmers organisations stage 'Rail Roko' agitation in protest against Farm Bills in Punjab's Shambu.

12:57 October 01

Rail roko in Jalandhar

'Rail roko' in Jalandhar

Bharatiya Kisan Union and Jamhuri Kisan Sabha staged a 'Rail Roko' agitation at Phillaur Junction in Jalandhar, in protest against the farm laws.

11:57 October 01

SAD leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal at Damdama Sahib

Harsimrat visits Damdama Sahib, leads 'kisan march' from Talwandi Sabo

Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who had recently resigned as a Cabinet Minister in protest against the contentious farm laws, today payed obeisance at the Takht Sri Damdama Sahib before beginning the 'kisan march' from Talwandi Sabo.

10:36 October 01

Farm protests LIVE: Sukhbir, Harsimrat detained in Chandigarh during Kisan March

SAD President Sukhbir Badal led the march from Amritsar

Amritsar (Punjab): The opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday took out 'kisan marches' from three different locations in Punjab in protest against the three contentious farm laws.

Party president Sukhbir Singh Badal is leading the march from the Akal Takht at the Golden Temple while former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal is leading the march from Damdama Sahib in Talwandi Sabo and Prem Singh Chandumajra from Keshgarh Sahib in Anandpur Sahib.

As the marches culminate in Chandigarh, the party will hand over a memorandum demanding revocation of the recently passed Agricultural Acts to the central government through the Punjab Governor.

"We will give a memorandum to the Governor with a request to the Centre and the President that sessions of both Houses be convened once again and the laws (Farm laws) be taken back. Farmers are protesting against those black laws," said Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Earlier yesterday, Shiromani Akali Dal spokesperson Dalji Singh Cheema said two lakh people will join the three separate 'kisan marches' starting from the three Sikh Takhts to Chandigarh.

President Ram Nath Kovind had on Sunday assented to the three contentious bills -- Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill; Farmers' (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill; and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill.

Read: PM Modi hits back at Oppn, says they're insulting farmers

01:53 October 02

Former Union Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal and several party workers detained by police in Zirakpur, Mohali district during Kisan March of the party in protest against Farm Laws.

Former Union Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal and several party workers detained by police

Sukhbir, Harsimrat detained in Chandigarh during Kisan March

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal, former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur and several party workers were detained by police during Kisan March near Mullapur barrier here on Thursday.

However, they were released later.

SAD leaders were prevented from entering the city to hand over a memorandum for the President to ask for revocation of the three "black" laws on agriculture to the State Governor.

The police resorted to lathi-charge and use water cannons to disperse SAD workers during the Kisan March. Senior SAD leader Parkash Singh Badal said that the "brutal" lathi-charge on peaceful protesting workers made this painful and dark day for democracy in the country.

23:52 October 01

Cong demands spl Telangana assembly session to pass resolution against central farm laws

Hyderabad: Congress in Telangana on Thursday demanded that the TRS government convene a special session of the state assembly for passing a unanimous resolution against the "anti-farmer laws" recently enacted by the NDA government at the Centre.

Claiming that the opposition of TRS to the new farm law was an 'eyewash', state Congress president N Uttam Kumar Reddy said the party government should "prove its commitment towards the farmers of Telangana by immediately convening the special session also to pass the necessary legislation to "override" the contentious central laws.

22:19 October 01

SAD President Sukbhir Singh Badal detained

Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal and party's General Secretary Bikram Majithia, Prem Singh Chandumajra and Daljit Singh Cheema were detained by Chandigarh police at Mullanpur. SAD leaders were leading 'Kisan March' against the farm laws passed by the govt.

22:11 October 01

Centre should bring law for procurement at MSP: INLD

Indian National Lok Dal senior leader Abhay Singh Chautala on Thursday called upon people to back farmers against the Centre's agriculture-related laws and said the Union government should bring a legislation to ensure procurement of crops at the MSP. The INLD leader also claimed that he can go to "any extent" to fight for people's rights.

The INLD secretary-general said he will write to all farmers' organisations in the country to stand with farmers against the black laws brought by the Centre. The Centre should bring a law which guarantees a minimum support price (MSP) for a crop and a criminal case should be filed against those making purchase below that, he told reporters here while asking people to back farmers.

Taking a veiled dig at his nephew and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, who also holds the charge of the Haryana Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, the INLD leader said the government had promised that every single grain of crop will be purchased at the MSP.

21:11 October 01

Chandigarh police detain former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur

Chandigarh police detain former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur

Former Union Minister and Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Baadal has been detained by Chandigarh police on the Chandigarh-Zirakhpur border. Police resorted to lathi-charge on SAD workers to disperse their dharna. Dera Bassi MLA NK Sharma, Balwinder Bhundar and Youth Akali Dal (SAD) President Parambans Singh Romana were also taken into custody.

The party began a long struggle today to make the government roll back the black law.

18:15 October 01

Congress has space for people to express concerns, BJP has none: Kapil Sibal

Taking a dig at the BJP over its oldest ally Shiromani Akali Dal breaking ties with it on the farm bills issue, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Thursday said the saffron party's alliance politics was "falling apart" over legislations and the ruling NDA has turned into a "non-democratic alliance".

Sibal, who was among the 23 leaders who wrote to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi calling for organisational reforms, also slammed Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman for recently alluding to the letter writers and their alleged undermining of the party, saying, "The Congress still has space for people to express concerns, while the BJP has no such space". Sibal alleged that the BJP got the farm bills passed while riding "roughshod over the Opposition and (its own) allies".

18:03 October 01

Farm reform bills will rid farmers & farm sector of middlemen & other bottlenecks: Rijiju

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday launched a scathing attack on opposition parties for opposing the farm reform bills, saying that the legislations
will rid farmers and the farm sector of middlemen and other bottlenecks. The new farm legislation brought by the BJP-led NDA government will benefit the farmers throughout the country and after independence, the Modi government took a big step to improve the agri and allied sectors in the country, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Sports and Youth Affairs told reporters in the sideline of an official function.

17:02 October 01

MSP to stay and rise in coming years: Rajnath Singh

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asserted that Minimum Support Price (MSP) system will stay and will be continuously raised in coming years.

"I want to assure farmers MSP will stay and will be continuously raised in coming years," said Singh.

"As a farmer's son, I want to make it clear Modi govt will not do anything against farmers' interests. I appeal to all farmer organisations to come and talk to us to clarify issues; I've already begun such meetings. Tractors are as sacred to farmers as weapons are to soldiers and burning them is like insulting our farmers," he added.

15:54 October 01

Rahul Gandhi, Punjab CM to take part in two-day tractor rally

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will hold tractor rallies in Punjab and Haryana from October 3 to 5 to protest against the Centre's new farm laws, the party said. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary and in-charge of Punjab affairs, Harish Rawat, Pradesh Punjab Congress Committee president Sunil Jakhar, and all state ministers and Congress MLAs will join the protests, to give voice to the angst and pain of the farmers, whose livelihood and future has been put at stake by the central legislations.

According to a Punjab Congress spokesperson, the tractor rallies are expected to be supported by farmers' organisations and will cover more than 50 kms over three days. The rallies are scheduled to begin at around 11 am on each of the three days, and will be conducted amid strict COVID-19 protocols, said the spokesperson.

On October 3, the protest rally will cover a total distance of 22 km, starting with a public meeting at Badni Kalan (Nihal Singh Wala, Moga), before moving through Lopon (Nihal Singh Wala).

The rally will then move into Jagraon (Ludhiana), where it will be received at Chakar, Lakha and Manoke, culminating eventually in a public meeting Jattpura (Raikot, Ludhiana), said the spokesperson.

On October 4, Rahul Gandhi will travel by car to Bhawanigarh for a public meeting, before embarking on tractors to Samana (Patiala), where receptions will be held at Fatehgarh Chhana and Bahmna, before ending the day with a public meeting at a grain market in Samana.

On October 5, the protest will begin from Dudhan Sadhan (Patiala) with a public meeting, and the tractors will then travel 10 km to Pehowa border, from where Rahul Gandhi will enter Haryana, for a series of programmes there, said the spokesperson.

According to sources in Haryana Congress, Rahul Gandhi is likely to address rallies at Kaithal and Pipli in Kurukshetra district along the national highway on October 5 after which he will return to Delhi. Farmers in Punjab and Haryana have been protesting against the farm laws and the Congress has demanded their rollback.

15:37 October 01

Our party left everything to help farmers: Harsimrat Kaur Badal

"Shiromani Akali Dal is beginning a long struggle today to make the government roll back the black laws. The party left behind everything - alliance, post, government, relations - to become the voice of farmers, who have lost everything due to these Laws," said former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

Shiromani Akali Dal began three separate 'kisan marches' from three religious Takhts in Punjab to Chandigarh against new farm laws

13:50 October 01

Rail roko in Shambu

Farmers hold 'rail roko' in Shambu

Farmers organisations stage 'Rail Roko' agitation in protest against Farm Bills in Punjab's Shambu.

12:57 October 01

Rail roko in Jalandhar

'Rail roko' in Jalandhar

Bharatiya Kisan Union and Jamhuri Kisan Sabha staged a 'Rail Roko' agitation at Phillaur Junction in Jalandhar, in protest against the farm laws.

11:57 October 01

SAD leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal at Damdama Sahib

Harsimrat visits Damdama Sahib, leads 'kisan march' from Talwandi Sabo

Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who had recently resigned as a Cabinet Minister in protest against the contentious farm laws, today payed obeisance at the Takht Sri Damdama Sahib before beginning the 'kisan march' from Talwandi Sabo.

10:36 October 01

Farm protests LIVE: Sukhbir, Harsimrat detained in Chandigarh during Kisan March

SAD President Sukhbir Badal led the march from Amritsar

Amritsar (Punjab): The opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday took out 'kisan marches' from three different locations in Punjab in protest against the three contentious farm laws.

Party president Sukhbir Singh Badal is leading the march from the Akal Takht at the Golden Temple while former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal is leading the march from Damdama Sahib in Talwandi Sabo and Prem Singh Chandumajra from Keshgarh Sahib in Anandpur Sahib.

As the marches culminate in Chandigarh, the party will hand over a memorandum demanding revocation of the recently passed Agricultural Acts to the central government through the Punjab Governor.

"We will give a memorandum to the Governor with a request to the Centre and the President that sessions of both Houses be convened once again and the laws (Farm laws) be taken back. Farmers are protesting against those black laws," said Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Earlier yesterday, Shiromani Akali Dal spokesperson Dalji Singh Cheema said two lakh people will join the three separate 'kisan marches' starting from the three Sikh Takhts to Chandigarh.

President Ram Nath Kovind had on Sunday assented to the three contentious bills -- Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill; Farmers' (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill; and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill.

Read: PM Modi hits back at Oppn, says they're insulting farmers

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