Farmers protest: ‘Repeal laws’ our core demand, farm unions to tell govt today | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI/BATHINDA: The group of 40 protesting farmers’ unions, which earlier participated in talks with the Centre, unanimously selected Tuesday to reply to its proposal for additional talks on Wednesday, marked throughout the nation as ‘Kisan Diwas’, and reiterate their demand of repeal of the three new agri legal guidelines.
“We aren’t averse to discussions on broad farm reforms if the Centre puts repeal of the laws on its agenda. That’s our core demand and we won’t compromise on it,” Punjab president of Krantikari Kisan Union, Darshan Pal, informed TOI after their assembly. “We’ve decided to send our formal reply, explaining our position on each point in detail,” Pal stated.
Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar once more appealed to the farmers to be a part of talks and iterated repeal of legal guidelines was not on the agenda because the ministry wished to resolve all points “clause by clause” by discussions on any date and proposed amendments/clarifications.

Tomar met some farmers’ unions on Tuesday (Kisan Sangharsh Samiti from UP and Indian Kisan Union from Delhi) which supported the farm legal guidelines.
Diuring the day, just a few farm representatives from Punjab determined to write to British MPs, asking them to persuade UK PM Boris Johnson to not go to India in January until the time farmers’ calls for have been met by the Indian authorities. Johnson is scheduled to be the chief visitor on the Republic Day perform.
This resolution, conveyed to the media by Kulwant Singh Sandhu, common secretary of Zamhoori Kisan Sabha, was, nevertheless, not half of the assembly of the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha — the umbrella physique of 40 farmers’ unions. “We did not discuss it in our meeting. Fellow farmers might have announced it in their individual capacity,” stated Darshan Pal, including that the Morcha would, nevertheless, like to attraction to the Indian diaspora to get up for the farmers’ trigger on December 26-27 as determined earlier.

Sandhu stated, “Already, 36 UK MPs have written in favour of our protest. Farmers have decided to organise a webinar on December 24, where five farmers will take queries on their stand on the Centre’s farm laws and why we are opposing them. This will be live, where 10,000 people can take part and it will be aired on social media platforms. We ask (Bollywood actor) Kangana Ranaut and others who are opposing our protest to come prepared.”
He stated because the central authorities was on a propaganda spree to justify the legal guidelines, they’d determined to print 10 lakh pamphlets every in Punjabi and Hindi, and 5 lakh in English. “We will put out the farmers’ viewpoint on the laws in these pamphlets,” he added.