Before the next round of talks with the government on the contentious farm laws, protesting farmers unions They have further hardened their positions and have given a new call for a parade of tractors to the national capital on January 26, Republic Day, which they will call the ‘Kisaan Parade’. The farmers’ unions also said they will remain on the Delhi borders until the government repeals the law. The next round of talks is scheduled for January 4.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be in Delhi on January 26 As the Main Guest at the Republic Day Parade held at Rajpath.
“We were peaceful, we are peaceful and we will be peaceful, but we will stay on the borders of Delhi until the new agricultural laws are repealed. We have called for a parade of tractors to Delhi on January 26, “the protesting unions said according to the PTI news agency.
At a press conference at the Delhi Press Club, farmer leader Darshan Pal Singh said that his proposed parade will be called “Kisan ParadeAnd it will take place after the Republic Day parade. “The parade of tractors with the national flag on January 26 will be called ‘Kisaan Parade,'” he said.
Political activist Yogendra Yadav and peasant leaders during a press conference at the Press Club in New Delhi on Saturday. (PTI)
Another farmer leader, Gurnam Singh Choduni, said: “At our last meeting, we posed a question to the government that it would buy 23 crops in MSP. They said no. ‘ So why is he misinforming the people of the country? “So far, more than 50 farmers have been ‘martyred’ during our upheaval,” he said.
On the other hand, the leader of Swaraj India, Yogendra Yadav, said that it is a “flat lie” that the government has accepted 50 percent of the farmers’ demands. “We still have nothing written,” he said.
On Friday, agricultural unions warned that will begin to close all shopping centers and gas pumps in Haryana if the government fails to resolve its main demands to repeal three new agricultural laws and a legal guarantee for MSP at the January 4 meeting.
After the sixth round of formal negotiations on Wednesday, the government and agricultural unions had reached common ground to resolve the concerns of farmers protesting the increase in electricity rates and penalties for stubble burning, but the two parties remained stagnant on the main contentious issues of the repeal of three agricultural laws and a legal guarantee for MSP.
At a press conference at the site of the Singhu border protest on Friday, representatives of the farmers’ unions said that only five percent of the issues raised by them so far have been discussed in meetings with the government. They outlined multiple protest actions over a month if their main demands are not met, in an announcement just days before the Republic Day celebrations.
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