Haryana government panel to hold meet with farmer leaders tomorrow
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Haryana government panel to hold meet with farmer leaders tomorrow
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The administration has scheduled a meeting of a high-powered government committee with protesting farmers with at Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University for Science and Technology in Murthal on Sunday, a day before a hearing in the Supreme Court.The committee headed by the ACS (Home) would hold a dialogue with SKM leaders over removal of blockade on the NH-44 at the Kundli-Singhu border.Notably, while taking up a writ petition filed by Noida resident Monica Agarwal, the Supreme Court had ordered that the farmers protesting on the Kundli-Singhu border in Sonepat district should give way to common people and shift to one side of the road.Following the SC’s order, DC Lalit Siwach held a meeting with the representatives of the protesting farmers on the road blockade on Tuesday.The SKM has claimed that if the BJP government was concerned about the protests, it should fulfil the demands of the farmers. — TNS
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The Tribune
Date
2021-09-18
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Sonepat