Farmers protesting against the three new agriculture laws on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resume talks, reported PTI. In a ...
Farmers protesting against the three new agriculture laws on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resume talks, reported PTI. In a letter to Modi, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 40 farmers’ unions, said it will not give up the fight as it was a matter of life and death for the protestors.
“Any democratic government would have repealed the three laws that have been rejected by the farmers in whose name these were enacted, and seized the opportunity to provide legal guarantee of MSP to all farmers,” read the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s letter, according to PTI. “...As head of the government of the largest democracy in the world, the onus of resuming a serious and sincere dialogue with the farmers lies with you.”
The Centre and farmers have held 11 rounds of talks since December, but could not reach a resolution as the government did not agree to the demand of scrapping the laws altogether. The last round of discussion was held on January 22.
In January, the government had offered to suspend the farm laws for 12-18 months, which was rejected by the farmer unions. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has stayed the implementation of the laws till further orders and set up a committee to...
