Farmers

farmers staged protests outside Congress headquarters as they protested the decision to give an election ticket to a Congress leader from Hisar.

Dev Singh and his neighbour Mohan Kumar confessed to their crime of attempting to derail a train in Farrukhabad. Singh's father, Kamlesh Kumar, is a prominent farmers' leader in the region.

Several farmers across Telangana as well as the opposition parties, BJP and BRS have slammed the Congress government and CM Revanth Reddy for cheating and betraying the state farmers in the name of crop loan waiver.

PM-KISAN scheme was launched in 2019, to supplement the financial needs of all land-holding farmers subject to certain exclusion criteria of higher income status.

When Prime Minister Modi announced that his government aims to double the farmer’s income by the year 2022, many mocked him.

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha has decided to convene a Jana Mahapanchayat across India asking BJP to explain why farmers peaceful protest was stopped

The Punjab economic survey also suggested crop diversification to oilseeds and pulses

‘Under WTO policy, they are working to end MSP’, Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal justifies demand to withdraw India from WTO

The ’award-winning’ journalist, however, conveniently ignored the difference between the MSP and MRP. Firstly, it is important to understand what MSP is and how it is computed. The Minimum Support Price is the guaranteed price at which central and state governments, as well as their agencies, purchase food grains from farmers.

It added that the decision is going to benefit more than 5 crore sugarcane farmers (including family members) and lakhs of other persons involved in the sugar sector.