New Delhi:
The Center has invited farmers to a new round of talks, which will take place at 2 pm on Wednesday. This will be the sixth time an attempt has been made to break out of the deadlock, days after the Supreme Court ordered the formation of a committee to resolve the protest over the new laws outside Delhi’s borders, which have been in force for more than a month.
The talks so far have been inconclusive, and both sides have held firm. Farmers have been adamant about removing the laws, while the government made it clear that it could only accept changes to the laws.
Before the meeting, Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Piyush Goyal, who have been holding talks with farmers, met with Cabinet colleague Amit Shah, who was the last to meet with farmers. Farmers have strongly rejected the possibility of accepting any amendment, which was suggested again at that meeting and later put forward in writing by the Center.
Speaking of tomorrow’s meeting, a senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture said: “The meeting will discuss the laws related to the three new agrarian reforms, the existing MSP system, the Central Electricity Bill and the Ordinance of the Commission for pollution”.
Tomar said today that the farm laws have received widespread acceptance across the country and expressed hope for a resolution to the farmers’ protest that has been sweeping outside the borders of the national capital for more than a month.
Some people have tried to mislead farmers’ unions about the three new farm laws, Tomar told a meeting of the NGO Confederation of Rural India, or CNRI.
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