Anti-farm law agitation and eventual repeal: A timeline

The three laws that Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced to repeal on Friday are Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce Promotion and Facilitation Bill 2020 Farmers Empowerment and Protection Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill 2020 and Essential Commodities Amendment Bill 2020Following is the timeline since they were introduced as ordinances paved the way for farmers agitation till Fridays announced to be repealedJune 5 2020 The Centre brings in three ordinances claiming these will bring in reforms that are long pending farmers can sell produce at better pricesJulyAugust 2020 Protests erupt in parts of Punjab against the three farm lawsSeptember 14 2020 Government introduces the three bills in Lok SabhaSeptember 17 2020 Lok Sabha passes all the three farm laws without much debateSeptember 20 2020 Rajya Sabha passes the Bills by voice voteSeptember 24 2020 Punjab farmers declare a railroko agitationSeptember 27 2020 President gives his assent to the farm lawsNovember 2020 Samyukta Kisan Morcha formed it is a consortium of more than two dozen farmers organisation mostly from Punjab but others join in tooNovember 26 2020 Farmers march towards Delhi begins police put hurdles in many ways including by digging up highways and spreading nails on the roadsNovember 27 2020 Ultimately farmers in large numbers reach Singhu border Tikri border Ghazipur border bring in tractors and trolleys set pandals langars cater to the protesting farmersNovember 28 2020 Government offers to talk with a condition that farmers shift to Burari farmers demand Ram Lila Maidan as the venueDecember 39 2020 Government starts talks with farmers farmers leaders reject governments proposal of amendment to the three lawsDecember 11 2020 Bharatiya Kisan Union BKU approaches the Supreme Court against the three farm lawsJanuary 712 2021 Supreme Court accepts to hear the case stays implementation of the three laws and appoints a committee to make recommendationsJanuary 2025 2021 Farmers reject governments offers to stay the farm laws for 18 months and insist on repealJanuary 26 2021 Farmers tractor rally on Republic Day major clash with police a set of protestors damage Red Fort hoist the Khalsa flag along with the tricolourJanuary 27 2021 A day after the Red Fort drama Delhi Police forcibly put up barricades at all the borders where farmers groups are protestingFebruary 14 2021 Bengalurubased young activist Disha Ravi arrested for editing and spreading toolkit in support of farmers agitationMarch 5 2021 Resolution passed by Punjab Vidhan Sabha demanding withdrawal of the three lawsMarch 19 2021 Supreme Court appointed committee submits its reportMay 27 2021 Farmers observe black day to mark six months of the agitationJune 5 2021 Sampoorn Krantikari Diwas Total Revolution Day by farmers marking one year of ordinances that paved the way for three farm lawsJuly 22 2021 Kisan Sansad starts at Jantar Mantar in a parallel manner with the Monsoon Session of the ParliamentAugust 7 2021 14 opposition parties leaders decide to visit Kisan SansadSeptember 5 2021 Kisan Mahapanchayat held at Muzaffarnagar farmers declare to oust Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Lucknow and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in DelhiSeptember 27 2021 Bharat Bandh call by farmers consortium gets mixed response farmers do not enter Delhi most action in northwest Indian statesSeptember 7 2021 Kisan Mahapanchayat held at Karnal action shifts to HaryanaOctober 4 2021 Four farmers among those killed when a car runs over protesting farmers at Lakhimpur KheriNovember 17 2021 Supreme Court appoints retired High Court judge to probe Lakhimpur Kheri caseNovember 19 2021 Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces that three farm laws would be repealedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever