Then another round of talks between Govt-Farmers on the newly passed three laws.
Key sentence:
- Farmers protesting for more than a month demanding the abolition of three agricultural laws will conduct their eighth round of discussions with the government.
- “There are media reports making the rounds that a new plan has been formulated by the government. No such thing exists.
- Analysts claim a middle ground has to be sought by the government and farmers.
On Friday, farmers protesting for more than a month demanding the abolition of three agricultural laws will conduct their eighth round of discussions with the government. The state has declined to roll back the laws farmers say would harm their incomes; on January 4, the last round of talks failed to end the stalemate.
Thousands of farmers conducted a tractor rally from their Delhi border camps on Friday to assemble on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway, instead of a proposed Republic Day move to the Capital.
Yogendra Yadav of Swaraj India and a leader of the farmers’ stated:
“There are media reports making the rounds that a new plan has been formulated by the government. No such thing exists. “This is a game to divert media attention off from today’s productive tractor march,” said Yogendra Yadav of Swaraj India, a representative of agitation among farmers.
At the seventh round of talks on 4 January, when farmers urged the government to revoke the three agricultural laws passed by Parliament in September, Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar claimed that it was not possible to commit to repealing them.
The leader of the farmer’s Darshan Pal stated:
“…we are reminding the government again in the run-up to tomorrow’s meeting that all these laws should also be completely abolished and also that remunerative MSPs should become the legal right of all farmers,” said Darshan Pal, the leader of the farmers.
Secretary of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee Avik Saha stated:
“Avik Saha, secretary of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, said, “…the protest of farmers will continue and also we will enter the capital to celebrate Republic Day without disrupting the official march if our expectations are not fulfilled.
The Punjab BJP leader Surjit Kumar stated:
The government is ready for all the demands to be met. But now, farmers were claiming the laws should be repealed… I don’t believe farmers’ unions want a solution. I feel their strategy is just something else,’ said Surjit Kumar Jyani, leader of the Punjab BJP, after visiting Home Minister Amit Shah.
A former economist with Tamil Nadu Agricultural University RS Mani stated:
Analysts claim a middle ground has to be sought by the government and farmers.” The repealing of the laws must be a political call; however mechanisms including such price deficiency payments can be designed…,” said RS Mani, a former Agricultural University economist of Tamil Nadu.
