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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The campaigning for the sixth phase of polling in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections is coming to an end on Thursday.
The campaigning for the sixth phase of polling in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections is coming to an end on Thursday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.