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Rakesh Tikait detained by police, returns without participating in protest

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was Sunday detained by the Delhi Police at the Ghazipur border while he was trying to enter the national capital to take part in an unemployment protest rally at Jantar Mantar. A Delhi Police official said Tikat, the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and a prominent face of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), was stopped at the border around afternoon. "Thereafter, he was detained and taken to Madhu Vihar police station where police spoke to him and requested him to return," Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Dependra Pathak said. The DCP said Tikait "agreed" with the police request and "he has been escorted back". Sources said Tikat was detained as the Delhi police was trying to prevent "undue gathering" in the national capital. Tikait alleged the Delhi police was working at the behest of the Centre. "The Delhi Police working at the behest of the government cannot suppress the voice of the farmers. This arrest will brin

Day 2 of SKM stir in Lakhimpur; Tikait calls for another nationwide protest

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait exhorted farmers to be ready for a nationwide agitation over their demands as a 75-hour sit-in by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha here seeking the removal of Union minister Ajay Mishra and a law on MSP entered the second day on Friday. The protesting farmers have announced to take out a protest march to the office of the district magistrate on Saturday, the last day of the protest. This was announced in a joint statement issued by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders. The SKM leaders will share at an appropriate moment the time, place and nature of the nationwide agitation, Tikait told the protesting farmers and called for strengthening the Morcha, an umbrella body of farmer unions. "If the SKM gets weakened, governments will get the better of farmers," Tikait stressed as representatives of the BKU-Chaduni faction, which is not a part of the SKM, reached the protest site to express solidarity with farmers. Farmers from different states on Friday reached the dharna

Farmers protesting against land acquisition blocks highway in Gurugram

A group of farmers protesting against the acquisition of 1,810 acres of land in Haryana's Manesar region blocked the Delhi-Jaipur highway here for two hours on Saturday

Farmers lift blockade from one side of Jalandhar-Ludhiana stretch in Punjab

Farmers protesting here for the past five days over the non-payment of dues by a sugar mill lifted the blockade from the one side of the Jalandhar-Ludhiana stretch of the National Highway-1

Farmers' mahapanchayat warns of stir if poll promises not fulfilled

A splinter group of the Bharatiya Kisan Union on Tuesday held a major farmers' congregation in western Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor to highlight the woes of the peasant community

Farmers call off proposed protest after Punjab CM accepts most demands

Farmers had earlier announced to block national highways at three places in Majha, Malwa and Doaba regions on August 3 in the state in case the state government failed to address their issues

There will be a major people's movement soon, says Rakesh Tikait

The government wants to create more political farm unions, said Tikait

Farmers, apple growers hold demonstrations in Himachal seeking GST rate cut

Farmer's organisations and apple growers, under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Manch (SKM), demonstrated at multiple locations in Himachal Pradesh and sought GST rate cut on boxes used for apple

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Twitter blocks over 80 posts and accounts in India after Union govt orders

Twitter India has blocked over 80 links, including tweets and some accounts, after receiving legal notices from the central government sent through 2021

Sri Lanka minister forced to flee as farmers protest his visit: Report

When Sri Lanka's Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera attempted to inquire, chaos broke out forcing the minister to flee the premises, the report added.

SKM delegation visits Lakhimpur, urges withdrawal of cases against farmers

A delegation of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha visited Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh and met the families of those who died in the October 3 incident there, an official statement said on Thursday. The delegation also met those who have been 'unjustly' arrested on murder charges, it said. The visit comes in the wake of the Supreme Court cancelling the bail granted to Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, in the Lakhimpur Kheri case. Eight people, including four protesting farmers, were killed after Mishra's cavalcade drove through the farmers' protest on October 3, 2021. "Right from the beginning, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has been in regular touch with the affected families and has given them all help, including legal aid, in the Supreme Court," the statement said. The SKM delegation met the district magistrate (DM), district superintendent of police (SP) and other officials, and raised the demand of withdrawal of murder charges and other cases against farmers. The

Waiting names from farmers' unions to set up MSP panel: Minister Tomar

Last month, Tomar in a written reply to the Lok Sabha had said the government was under the process of forming a committee on MSP

Lakhimpur: SC to hear plea seeking cancellation of Ashish Mishra's bail

The Supreme Court will hear on Monday the plea challenging the grant of bail to Ashish Mishra, in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence that had left eight people, including four farmers, dead.

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait receives 'death' threat; complaint filed

Farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait allegedly received a death threat from an unknown caller, who also hurled abuses at him, police said

New farm group to press for MSP law, months after govt repealed reforms

After the agitation to repeal farm laws, a group of farmers on Tuesday floated a new front to press for their demand for a law for guaranteeing minimum support prices for farm produce.

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'If Kashmir Files can be made, Lakhimpur Files also needs to be produced'

Violence had erupted in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3, 2021, during the farmers' agitation in which a jeep, said to be owned by the son of minister Ajay Mishra, allegedly mowed down four farmers

See witnesses are protected: SC seeks UP govt response in Lakhimpur case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday told the Uttar Pradesh government counsel to ensure witnesses are protected in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case