Punjab’s Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh set out for Delhi to meet with Union Minister of the Interior Amit Shah ahead of the next round of talks between the Center and representatives of farmers’ organizations on the three controversies. agricultural laws. He is scheduled to meet with Shah at 9.30am to try to find an amicable solution to the stalemate, according to sources.
Amarinder is accompanied by his main chief secretary, Suresh Kumar, and a few other officials. The prime minister had asked the interior minister for time for a meeting on the current uproar against the new laws that has led to a siege by protesting farmers, mostly from Punjab.
Thursday’s meeting between farmers and the Center is crucial, as this is the fourth meeting of its kind (all previous meetings failed to end the impasse) on the complaints against the three agricultural bills recently passed by the Parliament.
As the focus shifted to today’s meeting, farm leaders appeared to have hardened their position, demanding that the Center convene a special session of Parliament to repeal recently enacted farm laws, which they say will negatively affect the minimum price system of support (MSP) offered to growers. prices guaranteed by the government, and eventually helping corporate entities.
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