Today in Politics: LS poll campaigning for Phase 6 to end; Modi to start Punjab push amid farm unrest
The campaigning for the sixth phase of polling in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections is coming to an end on Thursday.
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Today in Politics: LS poll campaigning for Phase 6 to end; Modi to start Punjab push amid farm unrest
The campaigning for the sixth phase of polling in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections is coming to an end on Thursday.
As farmers block BJP in Haryana and Punjab, party meets poll officials, candidates say ‘reduced to begging’
The “Dilli Chalo” movement by farmers in February to seek a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) may have been cut short at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana where protesters continue to camp, but its repercussions are being felt by BJP leaders in the two poll-bound states.
As farmers meet again today, how long can Haryana BJP keep away, hope anger doesn’t reach it
The BJP got a reprieve on the farmer front the past few days, with the protesters having called a pause. However, with no end to the agitation in sight yet as the farmers meet again Thursday, the party may find it harder to continue riding two boats, as it has been doing – in Punjab, supporting the farmers; and in Haryana, defending its government’s crackdown against them.
Behind Khattar govt’s U-turn on NSA against farm leaders, fear of rural blowback, Congress ‘gain’
The BJP-led Haryana government on Friday promptly backtracked from its decision to invoke the National Security Act (NSA), 1980 against farmer leaders protesting along the state’s border with Punjab.
Today in Politics: As PM Modi arrives in Varanasi, why the focus is on celebrating Sant Ravidas
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will head to his constituency of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on Friday to address a range of programmes and to lay the foundation stone of projects worth more than Rs 13,000 crore.
Farmers’ protest: Loan waiver among demands, how Centre has allowed it only twice
The demands of thefarmers protesting at several places along the Punjab-Haryana border, with the agitation now spreading to other areas, include a waiver of farm loans.
Decode Politics: As farmer protests continue, how have they changed equations for Punjab parties
The renewed farmers’ protest demanding a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) has made political parties alter their strategies, especially with the Lok Sabha elections just round the corner.
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