Farmers' Protest LIVE Updates: Union Leaders, Centre To Hold Next Round Of Talks Today

Farmers’ protest LIVE updates 

The protests by farmers at the Delhi-Haryana border could hurt automobile production and even impact demand momentum in the short term. The protests could disrupt supply chains crucial for smooth production of automobiles, according to a newspaper report.

Read | Farmers' protests could disrupt auto production: Report

Farmers’ protest LIVE updates | “Beyond its core demands, the movement questions the increasing centralisation of decision making in a federal structure, lack of consultations with stakeholders on the ground, including on subjects such as land,” senior journalist Archis Mohan writes for Moneycontrol.

Read the full opinion piece here: Is the farmers’ protest a silent revolution?

Farmers’ protest LIVE updates | Farmers and critics have called the new farm laws ‘anti-farmer’, alleging that the provisions will reduce crop prices for farmers.

Among other concerns are that the laws will encourage hoarding and black marketing and lead to exploitation of the farmers. The lack of assurance of Minimum Support Price (MSP) too, is one of the main grouses in the three laws.

Read: The contentious clauses in the new farm laws

Farmers’ protest LIVE updates | Delhi minister Satyendar Jain visits Singhu border, says directions issued to make more arrangements for farmers

Delhi minister Satyendar Jain visited the Singhu border, a site of the ongoing farmers' agitation, yesterday and said the AAP is available to serve the agriculturists at all times. "The farmers are the backbone of our nation. If standing with the farmers is politics, then everyone should be involved in this revolution," he said.

"Instructions have been issued to make more arrangements for fire and water proof tents," Jain was quoted as saying in a statement. (Input from PTI)

Farmers’ protest LIVE updates | In this tweet from news agency ANI: Images of farmers holding a sit-in protest at Chilla border (Delhi-Noida Link Road) against the Centre's new farm laws.

Delhi: Farmers continue to hold a sit-in protest at Chilla border (Delhi-Noida Link Road) against the Centre's #FarmLaws.

A farmer says, "If anything concrete doesn't happen in today's meeting with the Central government then we will gherao the Parliament." pic.twitter.com/4mPOeAm9Xm

— ANI (@ANI) December 5, 2020

Farmers’ protest LIVE updates | A delegation of Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leaders met Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij and sought withdrawal of cases registered against farmers during protest.

"Home Minister has assured us that he will look into the matter and discuss the issue with chief minister," news agency quoted JJP’s Digvijay Chautala as saying. JJP, led by Dushyant Chautala, is part of the state’s ruling alliance.

Farmers’ protest LIVE updates | Farmers from Punjab and Haryana are the centre of the protests because these two states highly benefit from the MSP procurement system, especially for wheat and paddy crops, data shows.

Also, these are the two crops which are largely procured by the government, as compared to other crops, and these two states are among the top producers.

Read: Here’s why Punjab and Haryana farmers are on the warpath

Farmers’ protest LIVE updates | Kisan Union faction gives call for Bharat Bandh on December 8

The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU)'s Lakhowal faction yesterday gave a call for Bharat Bandh on December 8 (Tuesday) in protest against the three contentious farm laws and said effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be burnt on December 5 as part of the protest.

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, one of the three union ministers negotiating with farmer union leaders, has said that the government had interests of farmers in mind and was hopeful that a solution will be arrived in the next meeting scheduled for today.

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Farmers’ protest LIVE updates | 5th round of talks between Centre, farm leaders to be held today

The fifth round of talks between the central government and farmers is scheduled to be held today. A large number of farmers continue to protest in and around Delhi, against the three farm laws. The previous meeting on December 3 ended without any breakthrough.

Farmers’ protest LIVE updates | In the first meeting, leaders of farmer unions have rejected the Centre's offer of setting up a new committee to look into issues raised by agitating farmers. They also said that the protest will continue until their demands are met and the contentious laws are scrapped. Farmers say that they fear that the new farm laws will dismantle the minimum support price (MSP) system and corporatise farming.

Hello and welcome to Moneycontrol’s LIVE updates of the 'Delhi Chalo' farmers' protests happening at the border points of New Delhi. The protest has entered the 10th day. The Centre held another round of talks with leaders of farmer unions on December 3, but it ended without any breakthrough. Both sides are scheduled to meet again on today.

The first meeting between three union ministers Piyush Goyal, Narendra Singh Tomar and Som Prakash, and farmer groups had also ended in a stalemate on December 1.