Farmers protest LIVE updates: In a handwritten note found near his body, the priest said he was sacrificing his life “to express anger and pain against the injustice of the government,” according to reports.
Supporters of protesting farmers marched in Kolkata on December 12. AP
Farmers Protest LATEST updates: A priest from the Karnal of Haryana died by suicide at the Singhu border in Delhi on Wednesday, reports said.
In a handwritten note found near his body, the priest said he was sacrificing his life “to express anger and pain at the injustice of the government,” according to reports.
The protesting farmers’ unions said that the constitution of a new panel to break the deadlock on the three new farm laws, as indicated by the Supreme Court, is not a solution, as they want a complete withdrawal of the legislation. An RKMS leader said PTI Farmers have already rejected a recent government offer to form such a committee, while BKU Ekta Ugrahan said a panel should have been formed before the laws were passed.
Hours earlier, the Supreme Court indicated that it could form a panel with representatives of the government and farmers’ unions to resolve the impasse.
The ongoing farmers’ protest on the Delhi borders is an “exception” and “limited to one state,” Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said, and hoped for an early solution as the government is in conversations with farmers’ unions.
“There is an atmosphere of enthusiasm in the country for the recent reforms in the agricultural sector,” he said, referring to the enactment of three new laws.
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri called on protesting farmers to resume talks with the central government to discuss their genuine demands, saying this is not the time to remain inflexible. Addressing a virtual ‘kisan sammelan’, he claimed that the government led by Narendra Modi was taking various measures in the interest of the farming community.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Traffic Police said the Tikri and Dhansa borders were closed for any traffic movement.
Addressing a Kissan Sammelan in Gwalior, Narendra Singh Tomar said: “I want to tell the protesting farmers that if someone tries to tarnish the image of Narendra Modi, the government knows how to give them a proper response. They can speak up, but don’t do it. . spread lies and confusion among farmers. “
The Union agriculture minister reiterated that the laws will benefit farmers and said they were making a mistake.
The Supreme Court issued a notice to the Center on a series of petitions calling for the expulsion of farmers who camped on various roads near the borders of Delhi.
The Supreme Court today proposed the formation of a committee with representatives from both the government and the agricultural unions to end the stalemate against the three agricultural laws.
The Supreme Court ordered Attorney General Tushar Mehta to form a committee of government representatives and farmers’ organizations to end the deadlock between the Center and the unions.
“It appears that the government will not be able to solve this and it will soon become a national problem,” the court observed.
Security arrangements were tightened at the Chilla border between Delhi and Noida on Wednesday, as farmers union leaders threatened to completely blockade the key border crossing.
The Supreme Court will hear today a petition seeking the immediate removal of protesting farmers who have blocked several Delhi border points by sitting on the road unrest.
Farmers will completely block another key border point, the Chilla border between Delhi and Noida in Uttar Pradesh, on Wednesday.
At a press conference on the Singhu border on Tuesday, peasant leaders said the fight for the new farm laws has reached a point where they are “determined to win it no matter what.”
Farmers also threatened to completely blockade Delhi-Noida on Wednesday. (December 16).
This came hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that agricultural reforms are exactly what farmers’ bodies and opposition parties wanted. The prime minister once again reiterated his support for the three controversial farm laws and accused opposition parties of misleading protesting farmers.
Modi’s comments came as protesting farmers camped near Delhi for the 20th consecutive day on Tuesday. They remain firm in the demand that the Center repeal the three laws. The government has made it clear time and time again that it would not remove the farm laws, but is willing to make amendments.
‘He will make the government repeal the laws’
By hardening their stance on the three new agricultural laws, peasant leaders said Tuesday that they will “make” the government repeal these laws and affirmed that their fight has reached a stage where they are “determined” to win it no matter what happens. .
They said they will completely block the Chilla border between Delhi and Noida on Wednesday to press for their demands.
At a press conference on the Singhu border, peasant leader Jagjeet Dallewal said: “The government is saying ‘we will not repeal these laws,’ we are saying we will force them to do so.”
“The fight has reached a stage where we are determined to win whatever happens,” he said.
AMU students extend their support to protesting farmers
Students at the Muslim University of Aligarh (AMU) on Tuesday urged President Ram Nath Kovind to intervene on the issue of farm laws and demanded that the laws be repealed.
The students also organized a protest and gave their full support to farmers demonstrating against the laws at various border points in Delhi since the last week of November.
AMU students, including former student union leaders, also observed “Black Day” on campus to mark the same day last year when some 50 students protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) turned out injured in a police action.
They also held a candlelight march and delivered a memorandum to senior university officials, which was addressed to the President, demanding the immediate repeal of the farm laws and the CAA.
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