NEW DELHI: Resolved in their demands for the repeal of three new agricultural laws and a legal guarantee for a minimum support price (MSP) for crops, protesting farmers unions On Friday, he said they will have to take firm steps if the government does not make a decision in their favor at the next meeting scheduled for January 4.
At a press conference at the site of the Singhu border protest, peasant leaders warned of multiple actions if their main demands are not met.
They said that so far only five percent of the issues raised by them have been discussed in meetings with the government.
“If the January 4 meeting with the government fails to end the stalemate, we will announce the dates to close all shopping malls and gas pumps in Haryana,” farmer leader Vikas told reporters.
Farmers protests in Shahjahanpur on the Haryana-Rajasthan border will also move towards the national capital, said Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav.
Another leader, Yudhveer Singh, said that a tractor march will take place on January 6 if no concrete decision is made in the next round of talks.
After the sixth round of formal negotiations on Wednesday, the government and agricultural unions reached common ground to resolve the concerns of farmers protesting the increase in electricity rates and penalties for stubble burning, but both parties remained stagnant on the main contentious issues of the repeal. of three agricultural laws and a legal guarantee for MSP.
After talks between three union ministers and a representative group of 41 members of thousands of farmers protesting on the Delhi borders, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said that at least a 50 percent resolution had been reached. mutual agreement on two of the four items on the agenda. and discussions would continue on the remaining two on January 4 at 2 pm.
Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, are protesting at various borders in the national capital for more than a month against these three new laws.
The government has presented these laws as major agricultural reforms aimed at helping farmers and increasing their incomes, but protesting unions fear that the new legislation has left them at the mercy of large corporations by weakening the MSP and mandi systems.
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