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Bharat Bandh live updates: No talks between govt & farmers on Wednesday, says farmer leader after meeting with Shah

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Dec 09, 2020, 08:11:38 IST

Bharat Bandh live updates: No talks between govt & farmers on Wednesday, says farmer leader after meeting with Shah

Bharat Bandh called by farmers' bodies passed off peacefully today, with normal life affected in some states. Talks between farmer leaders and the Centre scheduled for Wednesday will not take place. Stay here for all live updates

11:39 (IST) Dec 08

Bharat Bandh: Some auto, taxi unions join strike

A section of auto and taxi unions on Tuesday joined the 'Bharat Bandh' called by agitating farmer unions to press for repeal of the Centre's agri laws and decided to keep their vehicles off the roads here. Kamaljeet Gill, President of Sarvodaya Driver Association of Delhi, which represents drivers working with cab aggregators, claimed most of its members were on strike. "There are around 4 lakh app based cabs in Delhi-NCR. Most of our members are on strike," he said. President of Delhi Taxi Tourist Transporters Association, Sanjay Samrat said drivers associated with several unions including Delhi State Taxi Cooperative Society and Kaumi Ekta Welfare Association were on strike.

11:34 (IST) Dec 08

Farmers have blocked road on Jind-Kaithal highway near village Nagura of Jind district in Haryana

11:28 (IST) Dec 08

Congress workers blocked national highway by burning tyres in Vadodara

11:25 (IST) Dec 08

Activists perform Urulu Seve in Hubballi demanding government to repeal new farm laws.

11:24 (IST) Dec 08

In Ambala, workers of Congress and INLD joined hands in support of farmers Bharat Bandh

11:21 (IST) Dec 08

The farm laws brought by the Centre will finish the farmers of the country. Farmers have started a massive agitation in north India and Bharat Bandh was announced for today. Mumbai Dabbawala Association supports the Bandh: ANI quoting Subhash Talekar, president, Mumbai Dabbawala Association

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11:20 (IST) Dec 08

Meanwhile, A Punjab farmer died of cardiac arrest at Tikri border late on Monday during the ongoing farm struggle against central agri laws.

11:18 (IST) Dec 08

A group of SP workers staging demonstration after closing gate of collectorate in Varanasi

11:15 (IST) Dec 08

Claim of Delhi CM being put under house arrest is incorrect: Delhi Police

@AamAadmiParty @ArvindKejriwal This claim of CM Delhi being put on house arrest is incorrect. He exercises his righ… https://t.co/7ASYp6WSpy
— DCP North Delhi (@DcpNorthDelhi) 1607405163000

11:08 (IST) Dec 08

Samajwadi Party MLCs Sunil Sajan, Anand Bhadauria and Ashu Malik and sitting out Vidhan Sabha in support of farmer's Bharat Bandh call

11:06 (IST) Dec 08

The opposition who is asking to roll back these laws is hypocritical as they had passed the contract farming act while in power. Congress has mentioned the introduction of these laws in their manifesto

Prakash Javadekar

11:06 (IST) Dec 08

Farmers had demanded remunerative price additional to the cost and we are giving them 50% above the cost. Congress has never offered anything during their tenure. It is PM Modi who is giving this.

Union minister Prakash Javadekar

11:03 (IST) Dec 08

Lodhika town near Rajkot remained closed

11:02 (IST) Dec 08

APMC market in Surat was functioning normally, though buyers were very less. Some Congress workers who came to protest were detained by police.

11:01 (IST) Dec 08

Markets in D-Park area of Rohtak city in Haryana remained closed in support of farmers

11:00 (IST) Dec 08

UP police gears up ahead of Bharat Band call. In Sitapur, police conducted route march and security placed outside Samajwadi Party office. Similarly, in Lucknow cops stationed outside Charbagh railway station and Rae Bareli police seen patrolling highway in Unchahar.

10:59 (IST) Dec 08

It is a general deployment to avoid any clash between AAP and any other party. CM has not been put under house arrest: Anto Alphonse, DCP North, Delhi

10:58 (IST) Dec 08

Police fail the attempt of Vanchit Bahujan Agadi to shut down shops near Thane station

10:56 (IST) Dec 08

Farmers of Chilla village block airport road in Sector 82 near railway under bridge in support of Bharat Bandh in Mohali

10:50 (IST) Dec 08

No one is allowed to go inside, he is not allowed to come out. MLAs, who had a meeting with CM yesterday, were beaten up by Police when they went to meet him. Workers were not allowed to meet him either. BJP leaders are being made to sit outside his residence: Saurabh Bharadwaj