New Delhi: On the first day of the year 2021, today the Farmers’ Protest has entered the 37th day due to the controversial agricultural laws brought by the Modi government. Where in the seventh round of negotiations between the farmers and the Central Central Government, the complete solution could not be reached, but two issues of the dispute have been agreed upon. At the same time, for the complete resolution of this issue, the eighth round of meeting is to be held on 4 January. The farmers are hopeful that the matter will be rectified but they have not been troubled by the Delhi border. Their protest is still going on and even today they are raising their voice against the ‘agricultural laws’.
Significantly, on Thursday, the farmer leaders said that there is no option to cancel the legal guarantee and the new agricultural laws for the minimum support price (MSP). A day earlier, talks were held between the Center and the protesting farmers’ organizations in which the deadlock over two controversial issues remained. On Wednesday, the sixth round of talks between the government and the farmers ‘unions lasted for about five hours, in which some consensus was reached to resolve the farmers’ concerns about the increase in electricity rates and the penalty for burning stubble.
At the same time, senior farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chadhuni said that the Samyukta Kisan Morcha has called another meeting on Friday i.e. today to discuss the steps forward. However, there is no question of withdrawing from the two issues that are legal guarantees for MSP and repeal of agricultural laws. Chaudhuri said, “The government has disposed of our demands to remove punitive provisions against farmers in the ordinance relating to burning of straw, and to stop the proposed amendments to the Electricity Act.” “
“But we want to clarify that there is no alternative to our two remaining demands, including the repeal of three agricultural laws and legal guarantees for MSPs,” he said. The All India Kisan Sangharsh, which is part of the protesting farmers’ unions, the Ordination Committee issued a statement on Wednesday, saying that the central government has appealed to the farmer’s leaders to suggest an option to repeal the laws which are impossible. The statement said, “The new laws will handover agricultural markets, farmers’ land, and food chains to the corporate.” The statement said that until these laws are repealed, there is no scope to discuss pro-farmer changes in the mandis and double the farmers’ income.
Explain that thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, have been demonstrating for more than a month on the borders of the national capital. They demand that all three new agricultural laws be repealed. At the same time, there is a meeting of 80 farmer organizations on the Singhu border at 2 pm. In which before the eighth round meeting to be held on January 4, farmers will formulate a strategy and discuss it.
