Delhi Farmers Protest

The BJP-led Centre wanted Delhi stadiums to be converted into makeshift jails to house farmers marching into Delhi to protest against the new farm laws, recalled Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday at an event to honour farmers.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday left for New Delhi as part of his tour to attend national-level political and social programmes, official sources said.

The Delhi government has given its approval to withdraw 17 cases, including one involving the violence on Republic Day last year, registered in Delhi during the anti-farm law protests, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the three farm laws over which farmers agitated on the borders of Delhi for almost a year were brought by the central government for the benefit of farmers and have now been withdrawn.

Delhi BJP on Wednesday staged a protest outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence over alleged non-fulfilment of farm demands by the AAP government, claiming that the farmers are being subjected to injustice in the national capital.

Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri on Monday announced to stage an indefinite sit-in outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence from February 9 over alleged non-fulfilment of farmers' demands by the AAP government.

Heads of several Khaps held a meeting here demanding fulfilment of promises made to agitating farmers in Delhi, and also opposed the centre's decision to raise the legal age of marriage for women.

The year 2021 ends on a victorious note for farmers in India. Three new farm laws brought by the centre amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 under controversial political circumstances led farmers to hold protest on Delhi's borders.

Villagers in Hoshiarpur accorded a rousing reception to farmers who returned to their homes from protest sites on Delhi's borders following the suspension of their agitation against the Centre's three agriculture laws.

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said farmers will fully vacate their protest site on the Delhi border here by December 15 as their first group left for Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh on Saturday.

Convoys of tractor trolleys bedecked with flowers and playing 'victory songs' on Saturday rolled out of the Singhu protest site, as farmers head home after over a year of agitation at the Delhi-Haryana border, which for many had become home.

Farmers camping at Delhi borders- Singhu, Tikri and Ghaziabad- have started dismantling their makeshift accommodations at the sites as the 15-month agitation draws to an end today.

Farmers camping at Delhi's Singhu and Tikri borders will take out a victory march today as they return to their villages in Punjab and Haryana after a 15-month agitation that forced the centre to withdraw three contentious farm laws.

As the farmers prepare to leave their protest sites on Delhi's borders on Saturday, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi Friday said they will defeat injustice with courage.

The Delhi Police will remove the multiple layers of barricades at the three farmers' protest sites in a phased manner depending on the movement of protesters who will start returning home from tomorrow, officials said on Friday.

The BJP-led Centre wanted Delhi stadiums to be converted into makeshift jails to house farmers marching into Delhi to protest against the new farm laws, recalled Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday at an event to honour farmers.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday left for New Delhi as part of his tour to attend national-level political and social programmes, official sources said.

The Delhi government has given its approval to withdraw 17 cases, including one involving the violence on Republic Day last year, registered in Delhi during the anti-farm law protests, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the three farm laws over which farmers agitated on the borders of Delhi for almost a year were brought by the central government for the benefit of farmers and have now been withdrawn.

Delhi BJP on Wednesday staged a protest outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence over alleged non-fulfilment of farm demands by the AAP government, claiming that the farmers are being subjected to injustice in the national capital.

Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri on Monday announced to stage an indefinite sit-in outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence from February 9 over alleged non-fulfilment of farmers' demands by the AAP government.

Heads of several Khaps held a meeting here demanding fulfilment of promises made to agitating farmers in Delhi, and also opposed the centre's decision to raise the legal age of marriage for women.

The year 2021 ends on a victorious note for farmers in India. Three new farm laws brought by the centre amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 under controversial political circumstances led farmers to hold protest on Delhi's borders.

Villagers in Hoshiarpur accorded a rousing reception to farmers who returned to their homes from protest sites on Delhi's borders following the suspension of their agitation against the Centre's three agriculture laws.

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said farmers will fully vacate their protest site on the Delhi border here by December 15 as their first group left for Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh on Saturday.

Convoys of tractor trolleys bedecked with flowers and playing 'victory songs' on Saturday rolled out of the Singhu protest site, as farmers head home after over a year of agitation at the Delhi-Haryana border, which for many had become home.

Farmers camping at Delhi borders- Singhu, Tikri and Ghaziabad- have started dismantling their makeshift accommodations at the sites as the 15-month agitation draws to an end today.

Farmers camping at Delhi's Singhu and Tikri borders will take out a victory march today as they return to their villages in Punjab and Haryana after a 15-month agitation that forced the centre to withdraw three contentious farm laws.

As the farmers prepare to leave their protest sites on Delhi's borders on Saturday, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi Friday said they will defeat injustice with courage.

The Delhi Police will remove the multiple layers of barricades at the three farmers' protest sites in a phased manner depending on the movement of protesters who will start returning home from tomorrow, officials said on Friday.