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Chhattisgarh: Hundred lawyers and legal professionals condemn ban on Moolvasi Bachao Manch, urge revocation

In an ‘Urgent Appeal issued to President Draupadi Murmu and Governor of Chhattisgarh, by close to 100 lawyers and legal professionals across India’, the group urges the revocation of the ‘arbitrary and unjust ban on the Moolvasi Bachao Manch (MBM) and the release of all its imprisoned members in the state. The appeal also demands the repeal of the draconian Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2005

We believe that the Indian government should repeal recent farm laws: Economic experts

Months spent by farmers arguing the impracticality of the farm laws have finally been rewarded as a group of economic experts analyse and raise serious concerns regarding the three laws.

Exclusive: The farmers movement is here to stay: Rakesh Tikait

Khap Panchayats from Uttar Pradesh are ready to join protest on Delhi’s border

Engage in talks instead of implementing the three farm laws: SC to GoI

Keeping the validity of the laws aside, the apex court confirms farmers’ right to protest

Union government announces sugarcane subsidy, farmers remain unimpressed

While some farmers responded positively to the news, farmers committed to the national struggle insist the central government is trying to distract them

Karnataka’s peasant organisations to go on strike till December 31

A joint coalition of farmers, workers, Dalits, women announce strike until authorities listen to peasants’ grievances

Poetry of Protest

Madhu Raghavendra's poems in support of the farmers' protest

Gurudwara priest sacrifices life for farmers’ struggle

The aged priest visited Singhu border earlier distributing blankets to protesters and offering money for the cause

Talking down to farmers is the worst way to engage with them

First they were silent, then they said things which made the silence seem more appealing. Here are some things senior politicians should not have said to farmers at all!

Jharkhand: Unpaid for 9 months, Pakur forest labourers move HC

The PIL has been filed by a forest range officer who wrote several letters to authorities demanding the workers’ salaries

SC advice to government seen as moral victory for farmers

Farmers’ organisation takes stock of events so far and assert that the Union government’s attempts to divide farmers will not succeed.

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