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Farmer leaders in a discussion before going in for a meeting with the government in New Delhi on December 30.

In talks with farmers, Centre agrees to put on hold electricity Bill and withdraw some provisions in NCR air quality ordinance; both sides to meet on January 4

On December 30, after a five-hour-long discussion that marked the seventh round of talks with representatives of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the

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Major Singh Punnawale, general secretary, All India Kisan Sabha (Punjab).

Major Singh Punnawale: ‘We never asked for these laws’

Interview with Major Singh Punnawale, general secretary, All India Kisan Sabha (Punjab).

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Satnam Singh Pannu (centre with the brown turban), president, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, at the Singhu Border.

‘We have only one demand: Repeal the farm laws,’ says Satnam Singh Pannu

Interview with Satnam Singh Pannu, president, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee.

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Hannan Mollah, working group member, All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee: “In this protest, the kisan movement has succeeded in defeating all the communal designs of the government.”

Hannan Mollah: ‘The poor farmers know they have no other option but to peacefully protest as long as they can’

Interview with Hannan Mollah, working group member, All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee.

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At the Shahjahanpur protest site on the Haryana-Rajasthan border. The dipping temperatures have not diminished the farmers’ resolve.

Farmers' struggle in India offers a lesson in resilience

A month into the protests, farmers are determined not to yield. And they have alternative media, books, songs and a similar protest in history to keep

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Farmers protesting on the Delhi-Meerut expressway at Ghazipur, Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, on December 26.

Farmer organisations refute Prime Minister’s comments on Kerala with hard facts and fix December 29 for the seventh round of talks

On December 26, as the farmers’ agitation against the three farm laws entered its 31st day and the government refused to back down on their demand for

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Watched by policemen, volunteers put up tents for the protesting farmers in the middle of a blocked highway at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on December 25.

Armed with facts, unrelenting farmers counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charge that opposition parties are misleading them

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a fresh offensive against opposition parties a day after Vivek Agrawal, Joint Secretary in the Union Ministry of

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The scene at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border after farmers blockaded the Meerut Expressway, on December 22.

The number of protesting farmers at the protest points around Delhi swells even as the unions reject another set of eight proposals put forward by the government

On December 20, Vivek Agrawal, Joint Secretary in the Agriculture Ministry, sent a letter to the farmer organisations inviting them for consultations.

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At a community kitchen at the site of the protest against the farm laws, at Singhu border near New Delhi on December 21.

Protesting farmer leaders send an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar urging them not to discredit the farmers’ protest by spreading disinformation and rejecting the ‘assurances’ given by the government

The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), which represents over 500 farmer organisations, has sent a strongly worded letter to Pr

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Protesting farmers at the Delhi-Haryana border.

Farmers reject Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar’s proposals even as Supreme Court upholds their right to protest

The protests by farmers under the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha entered its 23th day on the borders of Delhi at Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur, and at

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Inderjit Singh, vice president, All India Kisan Sabha (Haryana).

Inderjit Singh: ‘Modi regime the most anti-farmer government we have seen’

Interview with Inderjit Singh, vice president, All India Kisan Sabha (Haryana).

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Jagmohan Singh, general secretary, Bharatiya Kisan Union, Dakaunda, Punjab.

Jagmohan Singh: ‘This Prime Minister lies like nobody else’

Interview with Jagmohan Singh, general secretary, Bharatiya Kisan Union, Dakaunda, Punjab.

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