Kisan Diwas 2020: Union Minister Rajnath Singh wished farmers on National Farmer’s Day.
New Delhi:
The government is holding talks with farmers “with full sensitivity,” Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said today as he wished farmers on Kisan Diwas or Farmer’s Day, which marks the anniversary of the birth of Chaudhary Charan Singh, the fifth Prime Minister of India. The day coincides with the 28th consecutive day of protests by farmer groups against the controversial new farm laws.
“On Farmer’s Day, I greet all annadaatas (farmers) of the country. They have provided food security to the country. Some farmers are campaigning against farm laws. The government holds talks with them with total sensitivity. I hope they end their agitation soon, “Singh tweeted in Hindi.
Singh said that Chaudhary Charan Singh wanted farmers’ incomes to grow, their crops to be priced profitably and their dignity protected. “Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, inspired by him, has taken action for the benefit of farmers. He will not allow farmers to suffer any harm,” said the minister.
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar will meet with farmer groups this afternoon as the government tries to promote support for agricultural laws. Farmer NGOs are expected to provide “conditional support” for farm laws, the sources said.
“Representatives from different farmers’ organizations had come to say that the laws are good and that they benefit farmers. They had come to urge the government not to make any amendments to the laws,” Tomar said Tuesday after meeting with the two. groups. .
“I am hopeful that (the protesting farmers’ unions) will soon complete their internal discussions and come forward for talks. We will be able to find a successful solution,” the minister said.
On Tuesday, protesting farmers said the decision on the center’s offer of new talks was delayed until today, even as they stuck to its demand to repeal all three farm laws.
At a press conference on the Singhu border of Delhi, Farmer Leader Kulwant Singh Sandhu said that 32 Punjab farmers’ unions held a meeting and discussed the next course of action.
Thousands of farmers, who have defied water cannons, tear gas and police barricades, began their protest last month against the farm laws, aimed at ending middlemen and allowing them to sell products anywhere in the country. Farmers say the laws will deprive them of minimum prices set by the government and leave them at the mercy of companies.
The sixth round of talks on December 9 was canceled after a stalemate in which farmers’ unions refused to give in on their demand to repeal all three laws.
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