Farmers protest: Centre’s assembly with farmer leaders underway
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New Delhi: Meeting between Union authorities and farmer leaders over three farm legal guidelines is underway at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi on Wednesday.
Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Piyush Goyal additionally arrived at Vigyan Bhawan to carry talks with farmer leaders. The delegation of farmers from a number of states, who’ve been protesting on the borders of the nationwide capital for over a month, maintained that they needed the farm legal guidelines taken again.
“Our stand is clear that the three farm laws should be taken back,” stated a farmer chief earlier than making his approach to the assembly.
Delhi: Meeting between Union Government and farmer leaders over three farm legal guidelines underway at Vigyan Bhawan pic.twitter.com/ldyMsM4hKH
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Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait was additionally seen heading to the assembly from the Ghazipur border (UP-Delhi border). Tikait had earlier hit out on the opposition saying the opposition was weak and are usually not supporting the trigger as they need to.
“This is the reason farmers have had to come on the roads. The government doesn’t fear them. They should sit in pitched tents and stage protests on roads against the farm laws,” Tikait stated.
Earlier within the day, Union Minister Som Prakash stated that the federal government would go into the assembly with an open coronary heart and thoughts and would attempt to resolve the difficulty so that individuals can return to their properties for New Year.
This would be the seventh spherical of talks of presidency with farmers, together with one with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Farmers have been protesting at totally different borders of the nationwide capital since November 26 in opposition to the three newly enacted farm legal guidelines – Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
