Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday called farmers for talks, a day ahead of the government's sixth round of negotiations to end the deadlock over the farm laws.
The farmers' agitation in Delhi has entered it's 12th day today, with a large number of farmers gathered in and around the national capital to protest against the three farm laws. The agitating farmers have also called for a ‘Bharat bandh’ on December 8 and threatened to intensify their agitation, block more roads occupy toll plazas leading to the national capital if the government did not accept their demands.
With no sign of any agreement between the government and the protesting farmers even after the fifth round of talks on Saturday, and the next meeting scheduled for December 9, farmers are sticking to their first and major point - that the three "anti-farmer" laws passed in September be repealed.
Several opposition parties on Saturday announced support to the ‘Bharat Bandh’ called on December 8 by farmer unions against the new agri-marketing laws and held protests in various parts of the country to express solidarity with the agitators who have stayed put on Delhi borders for 10 days.
Even as the farmers leaders meeting with the central government was continuing at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, the agitating farmers at Ghazipur border remained calm and composed and kept on entertaining themselves with Punjabi folk songs.
After the 5th round of Centre-farmers talks on Saturday, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar once again assured farmers that MSP will continue and that there is no threat to it. However, the talks remained inconclusive once again and it was decided that the next meeting will talke place on December 9.
Farmers' group went on a 'maun vrat' (vow of silence) during their fifth round of talks with the government and sought a reply in 'yes' or 'no' on their key demand of repealing the three new farm laws, union leaders said.
Naresh Sirohi, till recently national vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party Kisan Morcha, has made five important suggestions to the government to resolve the farmers' agitation.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has once again showed his support for the farmers protests in India. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa during a presser, Justin Trudeau reiterated support for the farmers saying his country will always stand up for the right of peaceful protests taking place anywhere around the world.
The district traffic police had earlier advised commuters to opt for the Delhi-Noida Direct expressway or Kalindi Kunj routes instead of the Chilla border to travel to and fro Delhi.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is available to serve the agriculturists at all times, Delhi minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday, as he visited the Singhu border, where farmers are holding protests.
The BKS welcomed the new laws that it said was a "long-pending demand". Chaudhary said the outfit had been pushing for ''one nation-one market'' since long.
Dharmendra urged the central government to find a solution to farmers' protests over the farm laws, a day after he deleted a similar post on Twitter.
As farmers protests against Centre's new farm laws is still on while they continue to block major entry points to the national capital, a plea in the Supreme Court on Friday has sought an immediate removal of protesting farmers from border areas of Delhi-NCR.
The meeting between Centre and farmer leaders over new farm laws ended without any conclusion.The next meeting will be held on December 5.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh called his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal “this sneaky little fellow” as the two traded charges over the notification of one of the three new central farm laws in the national capital.
As farmers’ protest against the Centre’s new agricultural laws continued for sixth consecutive day, the Delhi Traffic Police on Tuesday issued a fresh advisory and asked commuters to avoid certain routes. Taking to twitter, the police said that both Singhu and Tikri borders, where these farmers are protesting, are closed for any traffic movement.
Extending his support to the farmers gathered at Delhi's borders protesting the Centre's new farm laws, Haryana MLA Sombir Sangwan on Monday tendered his resignation as chairman of the State Livestock Development Board.
The protest by thousands of farmers who have stayed put at various border points of Delhi for the 5th consecutive day on Monday against the Centre’s new agriculture reform laws may act as 'superspreader' event for coronavirus infection, say experts.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday alleged that the Khalistani and Maoists have stepped in to propagate under the garb of the Punjab farmers’ agitation and accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of seeing this as an "opportunity to burn down delhi."
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