As the demonstrators insisted on walking right up to the Raj Bhavan, some three km away, the police used force to prevent their march towards the restricted VIP area.
Hours after the government once again invited protesting farmers for talks on December 30, the Kisan Congress on Monday demanded it will hold a countrywide protest if these laws are not repealed.
The year, which kicked off with countrywide protests and riots in the capital, saw personal liberties take a big hit with anti-terror and defamation laws being used routinely to silence dissenters and human rights defenders.
The Congress leaders had in the morning declared that they will peacefully move in a procession towards Hazratganj to pay their tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on the party’s foundation day.
We are playing cricket away from home, elections are being held and political roadshows have resurfaced. But Parliament is the only institution that appears to have lost its velocity and verve.
Advocate Amarjit Singh said he was sacrificing his life in support of the farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s new farm laws so that the government is compelled to listen to the voice of the people.
2020 was the year which exposed the Modi government by drawing a battle line between farmers and the government, said the farmers’ leader who has just recovered from COVID-19.
The Prime Minister-CARES fund set up for Coronavirus donations is “established by the government” and a public entity, the central government said in a new RTI reply.
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