Farmer unions protesting against the new agriculture laws are expected to hold a meeting among themselves on Saturday to decide on the Cent...
Farmer unions protesting against the new agriculture laws are expected to hold a meeting among themselves on Saturday to decide on the Centre’s invitation for resuming talks on the matter, PTI reported. The farmers held a meeting on Friday as well, where some of them indicated that they were willing to resume the dialogue.
“We have another meeting tomorrow [Saturday] to take a decision on the Centre’s letter,” one of the farmer leaders told PTI, refusing to be identified. “In this meeting, we may decide to resume talks with the government as it appears through its previous letters that it has not been able to understand our issues so far.”
On Thursday, the Centre had written to the farmers, extending an invitation for talks and reiterated its commitment to a logical solution to all the concerns raised by the farmer groups. The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 40 farmer unions, had however, termed the Centre’s letter as propaganda.
The protestors are yet to be convinced with the government’s assurance that the Minimum Support Price regime will not be done away with after the implementation of the new laws.
“MSP cannot be separated from our demand of repealing these three laws,” a farmer leader told PTI. “In these...
