The sixth round of negotiations between farmers protesting against new agricultural laws and the central government, scheduled for Wednesd...
The sixth round of negotiations between farmers protesting against new agricultural laws and the central government, scheduled for Wednesday, was cancelled, after a meeting between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and farmer union heads on Tuesday evening failed to yield any breakthrough, reported NDTV.
Farmer leaders said the government will send a proposal on the farm laws their way on Wednesday, December 9. The union leaders will deliberate on this proposal. “We will discuss it, and decide whether there is need of another meeting,” Haryana Bharatiya Kisan Union President Gurnam Singh Chaduni told The Indian Express.
The meeting remained inconclusive as neither the government refused to budge from its stand nor the farmer leaders are ready to accept anything less than a repeal of the three farm laws. The protesting farmers fear that the new legislations would lead the government to discontinue the minimum support price regime and leave them at the mercy of corporate powers.
“In today’s meeting the home minister made it clear that the government will not repeal the laws,” All India Kisan Sabha General Secretary Mollah Hannan told reporters after the talks on Tuesday. “Shahji said that the government will give tomorrow in writing the amendments which the government is keen to. There is no...
