The sixth round of talks between farmers and the Centers today.
Key sentence:
- The Centre and the protesting farmers’ unions will conduct talks to address the deadlock on Wednesday.
- The Centre was represented by Narendra Sing Tomar.
- A total of five rounds of talks, one each on 1, 3 as well as 5 December, struggled to break the stalemate between the two parties.
- The government has also been urged by the opposition to find a way to break this impasse.
The Centre and the protesting farmers’ unions will conduct talks to address the deadlock on Wednesday, the sixth round of negotiations between the two sides. After the farmers’ unions have agreed to resume negotiations, talks will be held in Delhi.
Center sent an invitation to unions on Monday:
On Monday, the Centre sent an invitation to these unions to conduct the talks. The farmers hold to their stance that, among other things, the parleys can only deal with the methods of reforming the three new farm laws and offering a legal guarantee mostly on minimum support price (MSP).
Narendra Singh Tomar representing centre in crucial talks:
Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, as well as Piyush Goyal, discussed on Tuesday with senior BJP leader as well as home minister Amit Shah inclusive of the crucial talks.
The Centre was represented by Tomar, Minister of Agriculture, and Goyal, Minister of Food and Consumer Affairs, including MoS Trade and Industry Som Parkash in the talks with the farmers. On Monday, Tomar claimed that he was looking for an early solution to the impasse.
The 6th round of talk was scheduled for 9 December:
A total of five rounds of talks, one each on 1, 3 as well as 5 December, struggled to break the stalemate between the two parties.
Originally, the sixth round was scheduled for December 9 but talks being called off since an informal meeting with some union leaders by Home Minister Shah failed to meet any consensus.
Farmers’ unions have postponed their planned tractor march against the controversial agricultural laws until Thursday so that the rally does not interfere with their deals with the government.
Congress asking for instant repeal on bills:
For more than a month, thousands of protesting farmers, mainly from Punjab as well as Haryana, have been protesting at three border points in Delhi – Singh, Ghazipur, and Tikri – requesting the abolition of the three farm laws as well as the MSP’s legal assurance.
The government has also been urged by the opposition to find a way to break this impasse. Although Congress is calling for the immediate abolition of the three laws, without consultation states, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) accused the Center of bulldozing the farm laws.
As the NCP chief stated:
NCP chief Sharad Pawar claimed that if the government fails to address the ongoing crisis, opposition parties will take a call on their future courses of action on Wednesday.
The Three Laws farmers protesting for:
The three laws objected by the protestors are the Farmers’ Produce Trade as well as Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, the Price Guarantee and Farm Services Agreement for Farmers (Empowerment including Protection) Agreement, 2020, as well as the Necessary Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020, adopted by Parliamentary during September.
