Ruchika M Khanna
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 19
A meeting between a three-member Punjab Cabinet ministerial panel and the leadership of the state’s largest farmers union, BKU Ekta-Ugrahan, was inconclusive on Monday, as protesters said they would continue their agitation.
At the meeting, union leaders also demanded that Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s report, released in August, be ignored.
Ministers Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria arrived in Punjab Bhavan for the meeting immediately after the obituaries disappeared in Vidhan Sabha. The aim of the meeting was to convince farmers to reduce their agitation.
The union’s president, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, said their protests will continue until farmers are satisfied with the measures taken by the government to counter the Center’s agricultural laws.
“We also want the congressional government to withdraw the amendments made by the state government in 2017 to the APMC Act,” he said. Previously, protesters had threatened gherao Vidhan Sabha.
