LIVE: SC to hear pleas against farm laws, farmers protest issues on Jan 11

Farmers' protest LIVE updates: The national capital has been receiving intermittent rains for the past three days

Farmers' protest LIVE updates Day 42: The Supreme Court Wednesday said it would hear on January 11 a batch of pleas challenging the new farm laws as also the ones raising issues related to the ongoing farmers' protest at Delhi borders.

Union leaders said thousands of farmers would take out the tractor march from all protest sites -- Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur and Shahjahanpur (Haryana-Rajasthan border) and the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) -- on January 7. The national capital has been receiving intermittent rains for the past three days.

Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and some other parts of the country have been camping at several Delhi border points since November 28, demanding repeal of farm laws, besides a legal guarantee on minimum support price for their crops and other two issues.
 

Last week, the government agreed to exclude farmers from penal provisions of the Air Quality Management ordinance and to not pursue the draft Electricity Bill.