Gujarat

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait to address Kisan Mahapanchayat in Jaipur

Be ready to sacrifice your standing crop: Tikait to farmers

7:39 pm February 18, 2021

Hisar : Asserting that they won’t return home till the farm laws are repealed, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said farmers should be ready to sacrifice their standing crop for it. Tikait said the government should not be under the impression that the movement against the laws will end as farmers will go to their villages […]

Protesters won’t return home till agreement is reached: Tikait

10:55 pm February 12, 2021

Bahadurgarh: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on Friday revealed plans by farmer leaders to hold meetings in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state Gujarat and said protesters in Delhi will not return home until the Centre reaches an “agreement” with them. It was not immediately clear if the remark made at a ”mahapanchayat” here was a climb down from Tikait’s earlier assertion […]

SC seeks replies of Centre, states on delay in payment of dues of Rs 15,683 cr to sugarcane farmers

10:10 pm February 12, 2021

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday sought responses from the Centre and 16 sugarcane-producing states like Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra on a plea seeking a direction for immediate release of Rs 15,683 crore dues in a time-bound manner to the farmers, the delay of which was allegedly leading many to commit suicides. A bench comprising Chief Justice S A […]

Oppn plans march to Vijay Chowk in solidarity with suspended RS MPs

Opposition parties slam govt over Union Budget, say nothing in it for common man

3:46 pm February 12, 2021

New Delhi: Opposition parties in the Rajya Sabha on Friday charged that the Union Budget serves the interests of capitalists that will help the rich turn richer and has nothing for the common man, even as the BJP defended saying it has earmarked funds for all including strengthening of health sector. Participating in the debate on the […]

Only Gujarat sent proposal to Centre under agri-market infra fund: Tomar

11:32 pm February 9, 2021

New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday informed Parliament that only one state, Gujarat, has so far submitted a proposal for upgradation of agri-marketing infrastructure in 133 APMC mandis under the Rs 2,000-crore agri-market infrastructure fund. The government had in the Budget 2018-19 announced setting up of an Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) with a corpus of Rs 2,000 crore for developing […]