Playing the same tunes, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance has come up with a rhythmic slogan, sounding more or less like Salman Khan starrer 'Sultan's' song 'Baby ko bass pasand hai.'
Eleven rounds of talks have been held over the contentious farm laws but the impasse continues as the farmer unions remain firm on their demands -- the repeal of the three laws and legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price.
During the meeting, the leadership of the India Caucus, which is the largest country-specific caucus in the House of Representatives, condemned the violence on January 26 in Delhi.
He interrupted his speech to observe a minute's silence in the House along with other Opposition leaders, mainly the Congress, to pay tribute to farmers who had lost their lives during the two month agitation.
Tikait's tears galvanised people, as on Saturday a large number of farmers and other supporters came to the protest site at the Delhi-UP border from not just his home state of Uttar Pradesh but from Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand as well to show solidarity with the movement.
It also asked the farmer leaders to submit their response within three days, explaining why legal action should not be taken against them as they did not follow conditions set for the parade.
As cracks began to appear in their ongoing agitation against the agri laws, farmer unions on Wednesday cancelled their planned march to Parliament on February 1 when the Budget would be presented.
The Jat vote is crucial in winning at least 40 assembly seats in Western UP, which has been in the grip of a widespread farmer movement, reports Nitin Kumar.
"The question of entering into Delhi is a law and order matter and will be determined by the police," the bench said.
'People are questioning these highways and expressways in UP because ultimately, they want to get bread and butter first.'
For many years now, the Congress and its allies have not had any noteworthy representation from the area. The loan-waiver package may not improve things in the next general elections in 2009, Business Standard found out in an extensive tour of the area. Most farmers said they did not find it worthwhile to go to a bank for loan because the process was too cumbersome.
Kisan Mazdoor Sangh (KMS) and Kisan Sena (KS) made a representation, which also included a demand for strengthening the dispute resolution system in case of any trouble in contract farming.
Gopalaswami also said that more paramilitary forces will be deployed at polling booths in Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat and Saharanpur.
Security agencies have earlier expressed apprehensions that exposure of high-profile leaders to unscreened masses was a major security risk.
'Now the very government we helped to form is telling us we are enemies of the nation!' The BKU has stayed away from direct participation in politics. But this time they are not so sure, reports Aditi Phadnis.
UP police seized a film roll containing 36 photographs of suspected terrorists, hideouts and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir training camps from a studio in Muzaffarnagar district on Thursday.
The Centre's retreat from the farm laws is likely to have a significant bearing on the fate of laws that the Centre has made, for instance, in labour and electricity, predicts A K Bhattacharya.
Police on Saturday stepped up the hunt for the three remaining accused in the sensational Noida kidnapping case, a day after three-year-old Anant Gupta returned under mysterious circumstances and one person was arrested.
The boy who did not know a word of English was suddenly found to be speaking the language fluently and that too with an American accent.
Could a 4-year-old girl be a reincarnation of Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla who met her end in the Columbia disaster exactly four years ago?
Farmers had threatened to block other roads of Delhi in the coming days if the new agriculture laws are not scrapped soon.
"When police were writing complaint as we had asked for, why would Bajrang Dal protest?" he says.
India's leading Islamic seminary at Deoband and the famous Aligarh Muslim University -- widely acknowledged as the think tank of Indian Muslims -- hold much sway on the electorate in a large part of this region.
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of the farmer unions protesting the three farm laws, said emergency and essential services such as ambulance and school bus will not be stopped during the 'chakka jam' that is proposed to be held between 12 pm and 3 pm.
'Had these three farm laws existed it would have become a huge election issue.'
A confrontation was building up at the UP Gate in Ghazipur bordering Delhi with heavy security deployed while frequent power cuts were witnessed in the evening at the protest site, where Bharatiya Kisan Union members, led by Tikait, are staying put since November 28.
Officials said almost all the ministers present at meeting took the holy dip.
A CBI team visited the spot of incident on Friday.
The Aligarh Muslim University Teachers' Association on Thursday urged political parties "not to play politics over the dead bodies" of the victims of the communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar.
The disease is a result of inflammation of brain membranes and patients generally vomit blood, S K Arora, director, health, Meerut division, said
It created an approximately three feet deep crater in Kasoli village of Muzaffarnagar district on Sunday night.
73 constituencies will vote on Saturday.
Wrenched away from his first wife Gudiya, Taufiq has now been rejected by his bride-to-be apparently because of his insistence on the guardianship of 14-month-old Mateen fathered by him.
There are two hotspots each in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Kerala and Maharashtra and one each in Gujarat and Rajasthan
India will begin supply of ultra low sulphur content petrol and diesel in all but seven states from April 1, the government announced on Thursday.
The letter was received two days ago and warns of bombs in trains.
RIL's 3500 MW project at Dadri in UPThe Reliance Group on Wednesday announced its decision to set up the world's largest gas-based power generation project at Dadri in western Uttar Pradesh.
The disease has symptoms of Japanese Encephalitis and Meningitis.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances