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'Delhi Chalo': How the ongoing farmers' protest is different from the 2020-21 stir

Over 200 farmers' unions from some northern states have started their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to press the Centre for several demands, including a legal guarantee of MSP for all crops. The current protests are a reminder of the yearlong agitation in 2020-21. But here's what has changed since

‘Delhi Chalo’ march: What are the big demands of farmers? Who is leading the protest?

Hundreds of farmers from Punjab are marching towards Delhi after talks with Union ministers failed. Their key demand is a law that guarantees minimum support price (MSP) for all crops. While the Narendra Modi-led government has asked for time, farmer leaders say no more

Why a legal guarantee of MSP is fraught with challenges

The farm unions demanding a statutory guarantee of minimum support prices marching towards Delhi have put the Government of India in a bind

Cabinet approves increase in MSP for all Rabi crops for marketing season 2024-25

'Government has increased the MSP of Rabi Crops for Marketing Season 2024-25, to ensure remunerative prices to the growers for their produce,' CCEA said

Farmers call off protest after Haryana govt agrees to pay MSP

Haryana farmers took to the streets near Shahabad on June 6 afternoon and blocked the Delhi-Chandigarh national highway demanding a minimum support price (MSP) for sunflower seeds. The protest call was given by BKU (Charuni) chief Gurnam Singh Charuni

Farmers' body SKM rejects govt's 22 August meeting on MSP, says no hopes from it

After rolling back the three farm laws last year, the government promised a guarantee on MSP, withdrawal of cases against protesters & compensation to all families of the farmers who died during protests

Congress to take to streets after 15 August demanding rollback of Agnipath scheme

Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Deepinder Singh Hooda said he, along with several other Congress members, had given adjournment notices in both Houses of Parliament in the just-concluded Monsoon session for holding a discussion on the Agnipath scheme but the government did not agree

Punjab: Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to raise issues of legal guarantee to MSP, farm debt at NITI Aayog meeting

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the seventh governing council meeting of the NITI Aayog, the government's apex policy think tank

Samyukt Kisan Morcha hold 'rail roko' stir across Punjab over MSP issue

Passengers are stuck at the railway station in Amritsar amid a rail-roko protests by farmers

Punjab government seeks Centre's panel on MSP to be reconstituted

Earlier on Wednesday, Mann had slammed the Centre for not giving Punjab a representation in the committee, saying the panel without any farmers from the state will be like a "body without a soul"