Farmers protest in Delhi: 5 rounds of talks between center and farmers have failed to end stalemate
New Delhi:
The leaders of the farmers’ unions that have been protesting against the Center’s new farm laws are today on a one-day hunger strike. Farmers will also hold demonstrations across the country. The hunger strike between 8 a.m. to avoid the ego and scrap the legislation. “
At a press conference on the Singhu border, where farmers have been camping in agitation, peasant leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni said the leaders will observe the hunger strike in their respective locations.
“Dharnas will also be held in all district headquarters in the country. The protest will continue as usual,” he told reporters.
Even as more farmers from Punjab and other states came near the Singhu and Tikri borders to join the 18-day sit-in, Union Minister Kailash Choudhary said the government will soon decide on a date for the next meeting, expressing your confidence that problems will be solved this time.
Five rounds of talks failed to end the stalemate and the sixth was canceled on December 9.
Here are the live updates on the farmers’ protests:
As farmers intensify their protest against the Center’s three farm laws, union minister Kailash Choudhary said on Sunday the government will soon decide on a date and convene union leaders for the next round of talks.
The previous five rounds of talks between the central government and representatives of 40 farmers’ unions were inconclusive.
The sixth round of talks did not take place after peasant leaders rejected the government’s draft proposal to amend certain provisions of the agricultural laws and refused to participate in the meeting.
The government has made it clear that it is ready to be discussed at any time. But farmers’ unions have said they will come to the talks only if the laws are repealed.
Rajasthan: The sit-in protest in Shahjahanpur near the Jaisinghpur-Khera (Rajasthan-Haryana) border continues today for the second day; security personnel remain deployed#Agricultural Lawspic.twitter.com/aU4WixG4FD
– ANI (@ANI) December 14, 2020
While 33 agricultural union leaders are on hunger strike at the Singhu border in Delhi. On the Delhi-Jaipur highway, another agricultural leader will be on hunger strike today from 8 a.m. M. At 5 p. M. “I will not even drink water,” said Rampal Jatt, president of Kisan Mahapanchayat.
Mr. Jatt is from Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan.
Criticizing Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for calling for a one-day fast in support of the editors’ protest, the Union’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday that this is no more what hypocrisy.
Taking to the microblogging site Twitter, Javadekar said: “@ArvindKejriwal, this is your hypocrisy. You promised to amend the APMC Law in the Punjab assembly elections. You notified an agricultural law in Delhi in November 2020 and today you are fasting. Nothing. more than hypocrisy. “
Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will hold a one-day fast in support of today’s farmers’ protest.
The 33 farmers’ union leaders who participated in the talks with the government are also on hunger strike today.
Peasant leaders began their one-day hunger strike on Monday against the Center’s new farm laws and said protests will take place in all district headquarters later in the day, even as more people are expected to join. to the ongoing unrest at the Delhi border points.
On Sunday, Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he would also observe a one-day fast on Monday and called on the central government to avoid ego and remove the legislations.
Delhi: Farmer leaders including Bharatiya Kisan Union’s Rakesh Tikait go on hunger strike from 8 am to 5 pm in Ghazipur (Delhi-UP border), where the protest entered today on the 17th. pic.twitter.com/I2Zkdhxvav
– ANI (@ANI) December 14, 2020
Peasant leaders began their one-day hunger strike on Monday against the Center’s new farm laws and said protests will take place in all district headquarters later in the day, even as more people are expected to join. to the ongoing unrest at the Delhi border points.
Peasant leader Baldev Singh said: “The representatives of the farmers’ unions have started their hunger strike at the Singhu border.”
On Sunday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he would also observe a one-day fast on Monday and called on the central government to avoid ego and remove the legislations.
Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will hold a one-day fast in support of the farmers’ protest on Monday.
In response to a call from peasant agitators, he also urged his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) volunteers, supporters and people of the country to join the peasant agitation.
Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday that he will fast alongside farmers. “Tomorrow I will be doing a one-day fast in support of farmers’ protests. I am calling on AAP volunteers to join. The center must immediately accept all demands from farmers protesting against the laws and present a bill to guarantee the minimum support price (MSP), “said Mr Kejriwal.
As protests against the government’s new agricultural laws mount, all the leaders of the farmers’ corps, which are backing thousands of protesters who have been camping near Delhi’s borders since late November, will go on a hunger strike of a day duration and will hold demonstrations throughout the country.
This is the second nationwide protest in less than a week after roads were blocked last Tuesday as part of a nationwide shutdown call backed by opposition parties and unions.
Despite several rounds of talks with the government, farmers have said the protests will continue until new farm laws are removed.
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