NEW DELHI: in an effort to reach the protests farmers who have reached the borders of Delhi, Minister of the Interior of the Union Amit shah on Saturday he said talks can be held before the scheduled December 3 date if farmer agitators move to the site in Burari that has been prepared for them where supplies and medical facilities have been arranged.
“As soon as he hits the ground in Burari, the government will call him for a talk the next day,” Shah said.
In response to the offer, Jagjit Singh, president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) in Punjab, said: “Amit Shahji has asked for an early meeting on one condition. It is not good. He should have offered open-hearted talks without any conditions. “. . We will have a meeting tomorrow (Sunday) morning to decide our response. “It remains to be seen whether the discussions between agricultural leaders over the offer will result in a thaw. Meanwhile, Shah will be absent for most of Sunday in Hyderabad campaigning for civic elections.
The stalemate has created a siege-like situation at some of the entry points to Delhi, as farmers are busy along the roads and more are expected to arrive from areas other than Punjab and Haryana. Officials said the government’s decision to offer accommodation in Burari also encouraged more farmers to embark for Delhi. On the part of the Center, the Burari site was intended to be a conciliatory gesture even as the Minister of Agriculture Narendra Tomar It has not ruled out discussing a key demand that legislative protection be given to the provision on minimum support prices.
After Delhi Police on Friday he agreed to give way to the capital for protesting farmers, and on Saturday more and more farmers from Punjab and Haryana continued their march and gathered at the Delhi-Haryana Singhu border.
Protests against the new agricultural laws, which are aimed at allowing the expansion of commercial areas, contract farming and the removal of stock limits, have mainly focused on Punjab and, to a lesser extent, on Haryana. Before the “Delhi Chalo” protest, BKU leaders in western UP said they would not participate in the march, but some of them have now said that they will reach the capital.
Agricultural representatives of the AIKSCC “Samyukt Kisan” movement, Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangh, BKU (Rajewal), BKU (Chaduni) and other organizations urged the government to “immediately address farmers’ problems and resolve them rather than creating subterfuge over talks without a solution in mind.
Since farmers from other states, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana, have also joined protests against farm laws, these groups wanted the government to make the talks broader without limiting them. to farmers. representatives of Punjab.
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