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Farmers' Protest updates: PM uses ‘toolkit’ to claim global plot, says India will respond with all might

By Anuj Cariappa

| Updated: Monday, February 8, 2021, 22:59 [IST]

New Delhi, Feb 08: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on "international conspirators" who were out to discredit India - without directly taking the names of Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg who shared a "toolkit" in support of the ongoing farm protests and other global celebrities backing the agitation - and said the country will "respond to these conspiracies with all its might".

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10:58 PM, 8 Feb

BJP trying to divide farmers, celebrities like Sachin Tendulkar, Lata Mangeshkar being misled: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

10:58 PM, 8 Feb

Sent names of 2.5 lakh Bengal farmers to Centre for PM Kisan scheme: Mamata

10:58 PM, 8 Feb

Do not link farmers' stir with any religion, Sukhbir Singh Badal urges PM

3:57 PM, 8 Feb

Prime Minister Narendra Modi replied to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address in the joint session of Parliament on February 8 in the Rajya Sabha.

1:52 PM, 8 Feb

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday slammed the narrative against his government on the farmers' issue as he warned the country against the new FDI that now stands for "Foreign Destructive Ideology".

12:50 PM, 8 Feb

The demand for cutouts of Rakesh Tikait at Singhu border underlines the growing popularity of the farmer leader credited with reviving the farmers movement against the Centre's farm laws following violence during a tractor rally on Republic Day.

11:41 AM, 8 Feb

Manmohan ji is here, I'd read out his quote. Those taking a U-Turn (farm laws) will perhaps agree with him. "There are other rigidities because of marketing regime set up in 1930s which prevent our farmers from selling their produce where they get highest rate of return... It is our intention to remove all those handicaps which come in the way of India realising its vast potential at one large common market": PM Modi

10:26 AM, 8 Feb

Government has asked Twitter to remove 1,178 Pakistani-Khalistani accounts spreading misinformation and provocative content around farmers' protests.

9:50 AM, 8 Feb

9:11 AM, 8 Feb

The Tikri, Singhu and Ghazipur borders will remain closed for traffic as farmers at the borders of the national capital continued their agitation against the Central farm laws.

8:14 AM, 8 Feb

A day after a flag with a portrait resembling Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was spotted in Punjab during 'chakka jam' by farmers, Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said that some people have been hatching 'criminal conspiracy' against the country in the guise of farmers' protest.

4:11 PM, 7 Feb

In December, a lawyer from Punjab had allegedly killed himself by consuming poison a few kilometres away from the protest site at the Tikri border.

4:11 PM, 7 Feb

Over a fortnight ago, another farmer from Haryana had allegedly consumed a poisonous substance at the Tikri border. He died during treatment at a Delhi hospital later.

4:11 PM, 7 Feb

According to the police, the hand-written suicide note purportedly left behind by the deceased said, "Dear farmer brethren, Modi government is giving date after date... No one knows when these black farm laws will be rolled back."

4:10 PM, 7 Feb

Govt shouldn't have asked big personalities like Sachin Tendulkar & Lata Mangeshkar to tweet in support of its stand & put their reputation at stake. They're recipients of Bharat Ratna. Actors like Akshay Kumar were enough for this task: MNS chief Raj Thackeray

4:10 PM, 7 Feb

Farmers' agitation against the three agriculture laws at Ghazipur border (Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border) enters Day 72.

4:10 PM, 7 Feb

Heavy security deployment continues at the Tikri border (Delhi-Haryana border) as farmers' protest against three agriculture laws enters the 74th day.

10:41 PM, 6 Feb

Police said some trade union leaders were also detained on Saturday at some places as a preventive measure.

10:41 PM, 6 Feb

They were detained around 12.30 pm and later released in the evening, police said.

10:41 PM, 6 Feb

The protesters were from different organisations, they said.

10:40 PM, 6 Feb

Around 60 people were detained near Shaheedi Park in central Delhi on Saturday for allegedly holding a protest in support of the ''chakka jam'' call given by the farmers agitating against the Centre''s new agri laws, police said.

10:39 PM, 6 Feb

Though police managed to create a passage for Bose''s convoy, farmers blocked Debnath''s vehicle for 15 minutes, a police officer said.

10:39 PM, 6 Feb

The incident took place at Nawabhat More when Fire and Emergency Services Minister Sujit Bose and Animal Husbandry Minister Swapan Debnath were going to Budbud in the district to inaugurate a new fire station, they said.

10:39 PM, 6 Feb

The agitating farmers, under the banner of CPI affiliate All India Kisan Sabha, also protested in front of the ministers'' vehicles.

10:38 PM, 6 Feb

The convoys of two West Bengal ministers got stranded on National Highway 2 in Purba Barddhaman district on Saturday due to a farmers'' agitation against the Centre''s new farm laws, police said.

10:31 PM, 6 Feb

Many celebrities including Tendulkar and legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar rallied around the government on social media using hashtags #IndiaTogether and #IndiaAgainstPropaganda following tweets by pop singer Rihanna and climate activist Greta Thunberg backing farmers.

10:30 PM, 6 Feb

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar advised cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar to exercise caution while speaking about any other field as many people have reacted sharply to the stand taken by Indian celebrities on farmers’ protest.

9:04 PM, 6 Feb

"There will be no compromise on this," he said and asserted that the agitation was for the whole country and not one state.

9:03 PM, 6 Feb

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait declared that their protest on Delhi''s outskirts will continue till October 2 and farmers will return home only after the government repeals the contentious legislations and make a law ensuring legal guarantee for the minimum support price (MSP).

9:03 PM, 6 Feb

Farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan blocked highways with tractor-trolleys and squatted on key roads on Saturday, while scattered protests were held in other states during a three-hour ''chakka jam'' called by agitating farmer unions which are demanding scrapping of the Centre’s new agri laws.

9:32 AM, 26 Jan

We are in touch with the Uttar Pradesh Police and farmer leaders. We have deployed drones for security surveillance during farmers tractor rally: DCP East Delhi at Ghazipur border

9:32 AM, 26 Jan

Farmers' tractors with tricolour are set to take out rally in protest against the Centre's farm laws from the Chilla border on Delhi-Noida Link road.

9:32 AM, 26 Jan

Farmers' Republic Day tractor rally in protest against the three farm laws begins at Delhi's Dhansa border

9:35 AM, 26 Jan

Farmers Republic Day tractor rally from Tikri border enters Delhi.

9:52 AM, 26 Jan

Tractor rally from Singhu border reaches Delhi's Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar The rally will proceed towards DTU-Shahbad-SB Dairy-Darwala- Bawana T-point- Kanjawala Chowk-Kharkhoda toll plaza

9:57 AM, 26 Jan

According to officials, security personnel tried to convince the farmers that they have been given permission to hold their tractor parade in Delhi after the Republic Day parade at the Rajpath concludes.

10:01 AM, 26 Jan

A member of the Sankyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 41 unions, leading the protest against the three Central farm laws at several border points of Delhi, said those who broke the barricades belonged to the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee.

10:08 AM, 26 Jan

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10:15 AM, 26 Jan

Bengaluru: Farmers in Channapatna join protests.

10:16 AM, 26 Jan

Farmers hoists flag at Azad maidan in Mumbai

10:22 AM, 26 Jan

Groups of farmers at Singhu, Tikri border points enter Delhi breaking police barricade.

10:58 AM, 26 Jan

Delhi: Locals in Swaroop Nagar shower flower petals on farmers as they carry out tractor parade on the occasion of Republic Day

11:01 AM, 26 Jan

Haryana: Drones put to use amid high security arrangements at Faridabad-Palwal border as farmers carry out tractor parade.

11:06 AM, 26 Jan

We've to move towards Ring Road but police is stopping us. We've given them 45 mins to speak to their seniors. We're carrying out a peaceful parade. The route they are asking us to follow wasn't agreed upon: Satnam Singh Pannu, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee at Singhu Border

11:14 AM, 26 Jan

They have cooperated with us and we are cooperating with them. It is our request that they continue to follow the route they are currently on: SS Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police at Singhu Border

11:36 AM, 26 Jan

Protestors push through police barricading on Delhi-Meerut Expressway near Pandav Nagar

12:01 PM, 26 Jan

Farmers and Police are arguing regarding the passage over tractor parade at Nagloi Chowk.

12:08 PM, 26 Jan

Farmers protesting against agricultural reforms breached barricades and clashed on Tuesday with police in the capital, who fired tear gas to restrain them, shortly after a convoy of tractors trundled through the city's outskirts.

12:18 PM, 26 Jan

Delhi: Protestors arrive near Pragati Maidan area from Ghazipur border, move towards central Delhi.

12:30 PM, 26 Jan

Delhi: Farmers tractor rally reaches near ITO, Sarai Kale Khan from Ghazipur border

12:41 PM, 26 Jan

Protesting farmers reach ITO, break police barricades placed opposite Delhi Police headquarters

#WATCH Protesting farmers reach ITO, break police barricades placed opposite Delhi Police headquarters #FarmLaws #RepublicDay pic.twitter.com/F9HPrNNZF4
— ANI (@ANI) January 26, 2021

12:55 PM, 26 Jan

Rally is going on peacefully. I don't have any knowledge of it. We are at Ghazipur and are releasing the traffic here: Rakesh Tikait, Spokesperson, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) when asked about incidents of violence at some locations, during the tractor rally.

1:02 PM, 26 Jan

Police use tear gas shells to disperse the protesting farmers at ITO in central Delhi.

1:10 PM, 26 Jan

Delhi: Police officials sit on road in Nangloi to block the area where farmers holding tractor parade have reached

1:24 PM, 26 Jan

Entry/exit gates of Samaypur Badli, Rohini Sector 18/19, Haiderpur Badli Mor, Jahangir Puri, Adarsh Nagar, Azadpur, Model Town, GTB Nagar, Vishwavidyalaya, Vidhan Sabha and Civil Lines are closed: DMRC

1:30 PM, 26 Jan

A clash broke out between police and protesting farmers after the latter reached ITO in the national capital and tried to move towards Lutyen's Delhi, prompting the force to use lathicharge and tear gas shells against them.

1:41 PM, 26 Jan

Farmers protest intensified in the national capital.

1:47 PM, 26 Jan

Protesting farmers reach Red Fort in Delhi

Protesting farmers reach Red Fort in Delhi #RepublicDay pic.twitter.com/SaN8uVn2CD
— ANI (@ANI) January 26, 2021

1:55 PM, 26 Jan

Delhi: Following farmer-police clash at ITO, a group of farmers reach Red Fort

2:01 PM, 26 Jan

Delhi Police appeals to protesting farmers to not take law in their hands, asks them to maintain peace and head back to their pre-decided routes for tractor parade.