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Opposition parties tasted sweet victory on Friday as the government buckled under pressure to amend its sugarcane ordinance. It will bring forward a Bill that will allow states to fix a higher price for sugarcane than that fixed by the Centre without having to own up liability for the price difference. Ending the impasse in Parliament, an all-party meeting convened by the government this afternoon agreed upon the formulation that top UPA managers arrived at last night ensuring that states would not end

We are happy that the Centre has decided to delete the clause but our agitation will still be on against the state government and the mill owners for a higher price. The SAP of Rs 615-170 declared by the UP government is not acceptable to the farmers   -Ajit Singh

 

Technical Employees Association of Railways (TEAR) today called for a protest on November 23 to demand pay scale at par with the technicians of other departments. National President of TEAR J P Mishra said non-technical employees are getting higher pay scale than the technical employees in Railways and the pay scale is also lower than the pay scales of the technicians in other departments like Doordarshan and All India Radio. According to the press statement issued by the TEAR, former Cabinet Minister  

Bowing to angry protests from opposition parties and farmers, the government Friday agreed to restore the earlier sugarcane prices. The issue was resolved at an all-party meeting convened by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha. The government has also decided to bring in a new bill on sugarcane pricing in parliament.

The farmers will get a price higher than the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP)   -Ajit Singh

 

Parliament was paralysed for the second successive day today by a defiant Opposition which forced adjournment of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha till Monday demanding a hike in sugarcane purchase prices. Demanding repeal of the Sugar Control (Amendment) Order which enforced uniform price of sugarcane at Rs 129.84 per quintal across the country, the entire Opposition led by BJP disrupted proceedings in both the Houses, dubbing the last month's order a "black law". Besides members of the principal saffro  

The winter session of parliament got off to a chaotic start on Thursday with the Lok Sabha being adjourned for the day as the entire opposition united to stage noisy protests against the new sugarcane pricing policy. As soon as the session began, chiefs of Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal Mulayam Singh Yadav and Ajit Singh, respectively, led their party members into the well of the house over the issue leading to pandemonium. The speaker, Meira Kumar was forced to adjourn the house.  

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Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh on Thursday put the Central government on notice and warned that unless the sugar cane pricing ordinance was withdrawn, farmers would stop supplies of commodities and milk to the capital. "We will shut down Delhi," he declared at a massive rally of farmers. The rally, which stopped Delhi on its tracks, not only catapulted the issue to the centre stage ...  

With sugarcane pricing issue offering them an appropriate cover to mount a joint assault on the government, the Opposition parties, belonging to both the Right and the Left, paralysed the Lok Sabha forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House for the day. Speaker Meira Kumar had barely completed the process of making obituary references after the searing-in of two new members when SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav stormed into the well. "Stop the robbery on sugarcane farmers," he exclaimed.  

Politicking over sugarcane pricing spilled outside Parliament on Thursday with agitating farmers from western Uttar Pradesh swarming Parliament Street and Jantar Mantar, and Opposition leaders cutting across the political divide making the most of it. BJP's Arun Jaitley, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh, JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav, CPM's Basudeb Acharia, CPI's Gurudas Dasgupta and D Raja and a couple of AIADMK MPs all shared the dais after the Lok Sabha was adjourned and attacked the UPA governmen  

Opposition parties of all hues united on Thursday at a farmer's rally organised in New Delhi to protest against the Manmohan Singh government's decision to issue the Sugarcane Control (Amendment) Order, 2009. BJP leader Arun Jaitley rubbed shoulders with Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his trusted lieutenant Amar Singh, CPI leaders D Raja and Gurudas Dasgupta, besides JD(U) president and NDA convenor Sharad Yadav. Such a display of opposition unity, where Left parties joined hands with