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