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Govt-farmers' 7th round of talks begins to end deadlock

  •   Mon, Jan 04 2021 05:38:40 PM

New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS): A crucial seventh round of talks between the government and 41 farmers representatives began here on Monday to end the deadlock as the agitation entered the 40th day with the farmers sticking to their stand to repeal the three farm laws and guarantee MSP.

The meeting started around 2.30 p.m. at Vigyan Bhavan in the presence of Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal and Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Som Parkash.

Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal and other Ministry officials are also attending the meeting.

As the sixth round of talks held at the same location on December 30 ended on a positive note with the government agreeing on two points, the government will try to persuade the farmers to end their agitation by adopting a middle way or forming a committee to resolve the issue.

Krantikari Kisan Union President (Punjab) Darshan Pal, Bharatiya Kisan Union's Jagjeet Singh Dalewal and Balbir Singh Rajewal, Jamhuri Kishan Sabha Punjab General Secretary Kulwant Singh, and Bharatiya Kisan Union (Uttar Pradesh) President Rakesh Tikait are among the 41 farm union leaders taking part in the meeting.

The agitating farmers have already announced to take out a tractor rally towards Delhi on January 26, which is Republic Day, besides a series of programmes in a bid to intensify their protest if their demands to withdraw the three contentious farm laws enacted in September and a written assurance on the Minimum Support Price (MSP) are not met.

Modalities for the repeal of the three Central farm acts and putting the mechanisms for a remunerative MSP as recommended by the National Farmers' Commission into a legally guaranteed entitlement for all farmers and all agricultural commodities is the major agenda of the meeting.

In the sixth round of talks the government agreed to the farmers demand to exclude them from the penal provisions of the 'Commission for the Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance, 2020' and changes in the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 to protect the interests of farmers.

Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh have been protesting at the borders of the national capital demanding the repeal of the three farm laws, among other issues.

 
  

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  • anthony, Mangalore

    Mon, Jan 04 2021

    It is clear to the people of our country that these three farm bills was a dubious case of match fixing by Modi and Amit Shah for their crony capitalists friends like Ambani and Adani. The elaborate advance preparations , go downs, super markets, land acquisitions and other arrangements by industrialists Abmani and Adani are already in the public domain. These crony capitalists will then dominate the agriculture sector and render the farmers vulnerable and vanquished.

    The BJP Govt has made a mockery of Parlimentary Democracy by passing these Farm Bills without any discussion in the house or taken any of the stake holders into confidence. They finally passed it in the Rajya Sabha in a most deceitful manner through a voice vote just to please their Crony Capitalist friends at the expense of the Farmers.

    A Suit Boot Ki Sarkar that is totally insensitive, Callous, Indifferent, Arrogant and Autocratic that cares two hoots for the lower sections of our society including farmers. "Since Independence, it is for the first time that an arrogant government has come to power. It is not even looking at the pain and sufferings of farmers, forget about the common man,"
    If Agriculture is a State subject the why has the center passed Bills on Farm Laws on Agriculture.
    the BJP government is under pressure to fill the bags of their billionaire friends. Come, support the farmers.". 'Kale Kanoon Hatao- Kisan Bachao'.

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  • Deshbhakt, Mangalore

    Mon, Jan 04 2021

    Does the government have any idea about the limit of patience these 'Annadaatha' people have ?? Not first, second but seventh round of talk. ??

    Don't take them for granted. Remember, in times of Covid sluggish growth, it's only the agricultural sector that kept the flames burning.

    Don't take them for granted. You are seeing only two-three states' farmers on the roads. Dread, if the whole nation's farmers are to get on the streets.

    It's time you shed your Gujju Buddhi and listen to them.

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  • Veer, Nagpur

    Mon, Jan 04 2021

    My Dear Farmer Brethren, Lathon Ke Bhooth Baathon Se Nahin Manthe.

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