News for '-chhattisgarh-bill'

States' own versions of farm Bills are falling short on farmers' needs

Rediff.com17 Nov 2020

Though the Bills of Punjab and Rajasthan have a lot of similarities, the one approved by the Chhattisgarh Assembly is structurally different. None of the three has tried to address a key demand of the agitating farmers in full, which is to make all payments below the MSP, within and outside mandis, illegal.

Single-party rule no longer accepted in India: Sharad Pawar

Rediff.com4 Aug 2013

Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN reiterated that he is not going to contest the next Lok Sabha elections.