Hopes for the positive outcome during today’s talk between Centre and Farmers.
Key sentence:
- The last session of talks failed to end the stalemate as the Centre refused to roll back the law’s farmers would damage their revenues.
- The Centre said it was optimistic that meaningful talks would take place on Friday.
- Farmers are asking that the three laws be abolished and a legal guarantee for minimum prices of assistance.
Protesting against the three central agricultural rules, farmers will hold their ninth round of talks with the Union’s Government on Friday.
The last talk of impasse failed:
On January 8, the last session of talks failed to end the stalemate as the Centre refused to roll back the laws farmers say would damage their revenues. On January 12, the farm unions agreed not to participate in the discussions with the four-member panel proposed by the Supreme Court to review three rules.
The unions have argued that because the members had supported the past laws, the committee was “pro-government.” On Tuesday, the top court held the farm laws under abeyance.
Sanyukt Kisan Morcha member Balbir Singh
Rajewal stated:
“We’re going to hold discussions with the government. Balbir Singh Rajewal, a representative of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha Platform of Protesting Farm Unions, says, “We do not want to hold a meeting with an external panel, which is a trick to divert attention towards our main demand, which is the repealing of the laws.”
Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar stated:
The Centre, meanwhile, said it was optimistic that meaningful talks would take place on Friday. The government will conduct talks with the farmers’ union with an open mind. We’re responsive to all of the farmers’ problems,’ says Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar.
Balbir Singh Rajewal about the Republic Day March:
The farm unions said they would move ahead peacefully on Republic Day with a scheduled tractor march throughout the national capital. Many lies have been spread that on Republic Day farmers will occupy the Red Fort and Parliament.
These are misleading and are being published mischievously. Our parade of tractors will be entirely peaceful and also disciplined. After January 15, we’ll spell out all the details,” Rajewal added.
A farm chief Darshan Pal stated:
Farmers are asking that the three laws be abolished and a legal guarantee for minimum prices of assistance. Under the 1955 Essential Commodities Act, the laws eliminate limitations on the purchasing and selling farm products, lift restrictions against stockpiling and authorize contract farming centred on written agreements.
“We are informing the government repeatedly that these laws must be completely abolished and also that remunerative MSPs should be turned into a legal right for all farmers,” said Darshan Pal, a farm chief.
The eighth round of talks that took place on January 8 finished in an impasse. Whereas the farmers urged the government in September to revoke the laws passed by Parliament, Tomar said it was not feasible to commit a revoke.
