New Delhi: Farmers from 50 villages in Noida have called a mahapanchayat on Saturday to decide their next course of action on the land acquisition battle. A fortnight in office and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh is ready with the much-awaited Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill. But will the bill be a slightly modified version of the archaic colonial Land Acquisition Act of 1894 or will it be a...
08:17 AM, Jul 30, 2011
New Delhi: Farmers from 54 villages re-assembled in Greater Noida on Monday for a mahapanchayat and are also expected to meet authorities. They have been demanding developed land equal to five per cent of the area of their acquired land and have threatened to halt ongoing construction work in various sectors if not given their due. Earlier on Sunday, the mahapanchayat of Noida farmers set July 31 as their deadline...
11:44 AM, Jul 25, 2011
New Delhi: Farmers from 54 villages in Uttar Pradesh descended on Greater Noida on Sunday for a mahapanchayat. The farmers organised a yagna to make sure that the court order that will come on July 26 comes in their favour. The farmers demanded developed land equal to five per cent of the area of their acquired abadi lands, as per the terms of land acquisition. They have threatened to halt...
11:01 AM, Jul 24, 2011
Lucknow: Terming the Congress "Kisan Mahapanchayat" addressed by Rahul Gandhi in Aligarh on Saturday as a "total flop", BSP claimed a majority of the people present at the venue consisted of nomination-seekers for coming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. A BSP spokesman here said almost 80 per cent of the crowd in the mahapanchayat was ticket-seekers while farmers' presence was only twenty per cent. "The crowd had been lured with...
08:11 PM, Jul 09, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday reached Aligarh for addressing a mahapanchayat, a day after completing his padyatra in Uttar Pradesh. It was meant to be a grand finale of the padyatra and that's what it turuned out to be as around 30,000 people turned up to listen to Rahul's speech. Rahul Gandhi kept the attack on Mayawati going and said that her land acquisition policy has...
03:51 PM, Jul 09, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi reached Aigarh on Friday after he wound up his four-day foot march through the dusty heartlands of rural Uttar Pradesh and returned to Delhi. After an arduous four-day padyatra through rural Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi is going to address thousands at the kisan mahapanchayat. Rahul Gandhi has earlier attacked Chief Minister Mayawati on several fronts, including on the issue of forcible acquisition of...
07:41 AM, Jul 09, 2011
New Delhi: After Bhatta Parsaul, Rahul Gandhi will reach out to farmers in Aligarh in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh with the Congress organising a 'kisan mahapanchayat' there on July 9. The decision to shift the venue of the 'grand assembly' of farmers to Aligarh, which has also witnessed agitation over land acquisition issue, was taken after Mayawati Government declined permission to hold the meet at Bhatta Parsaul in Greater Noida, where...
08:10 PM, Jul 02, 2011
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