Farmers sit in protest against the new farm laws at Ghazipur Border, New DelhiFarmers’ Protest Live Updates: Haryana Deputy Chief Minister and Dushyant Chautala says new central farm laws need many amendments and urges protesting farmers to give ‘concrete suggestions’. The Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leader reiterated that he will tender his resignation the day he feels he is unable to ensure minimum support price (MSP) to farmers in Haryana, reported PTI. Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh, the leader of the BJP ally in Haryana, said, “I believe that many amendments should be there. On this, we have given many suggestions to the Centre earlier and they too were agreeable on many suggestions.”
Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, the opposition parties said that the allegations being made by the PM accusing opposition parties of “repeatedly lying” to farmers about new farm laws is baseless. In a joint statement, they said, “We register our strong protest against baseless allegations being made by PM accusing opposition parties of “repeatedly lying” to farmers about new farm laws and “using them for their politics”. PM’s accusations are a complete travesty of truth. We demand that the present Agri Laws be repealed along with the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020. Following this, discussions on agrarian reforms must be held by the Central government with the farmers and all stakeholders.”
The Centre on Thursday once again wrote to farmer unions asking them to decide the date and time for the next round of talks over the three farm laws — which has brought thousands of cultivators, primarily from Punjab, at the capital’s doorstep. “Govt is committed to reaching logical solutions of the issues raised by you,” the letter read. However, the government made it clear that it would not be “logical” to include in the agenda any new demand related to minimum support price (MSP), which is out of the purview of the legislations.
The letter comes a day after farmer unions, protesting for nearly a month now, wrote to the Centre, stating they were open to talks, but the government must offer a concrete proposal first. After five rounds of discussion between the two sides remained inconclusive, the government on Sunday had invited the farmer leaders for further talk.
Haryana Deputy Chief Minister and Dushyant Chautala says new central farm laws need many amendments and urges protesting farmers to give 'concrete suggestions'. The Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leader reiterated that he will tender his resignation the day he feels he is unable to ensure minimum support price (MSP) to farmers in Haryana, reported PTI. Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh, the leader of the BJP ally in Haryana, said, "I believe that many amendments should be there. On this, we have given many suggestions to the Centre earlier and they too were agreeable on many suggestions."
"We register our strong protest against baseless allegations being made by PM accusing opposition parties of “repeatedly lying” to farmers about new farm laws & “using them for their politics”. PM's accusations are a complete travesty of truth," opposition parties said in a joint statement. "We demand that the present Agri Laws be repealed along with the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020. Following this, discussions on agrarian reforms must be held by the Central government with the farmers and all stakeholders," they added.
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With the protesting farmers remaining steadfast in their demands, a Canada-based man, who arrived in India a week ago, is mulling the idea of prolonging his stay here as he feels the need to participate in the agitation. Gurbaksh Singh, who has been a businessman in Toronto for the last 30 years, said he came to India last week to be part of the agitation demanding the revocation of three new farm laws that "threaten the land ownership" of thousands of farmer families, including his. "Although I have my return tickets booked for next week, after seeing all this, I am thinking if I should prolong my stay here," Singh, who is originally from Punjab's Nawa Shahr village, said. --PTI
The Kerala cabinet on Thursday again decided to recommend to Governor Arif Mohammed Khan seeking approval for a special Assembly sessionon December 31 to discuss and pass a resolution against the three central farm laws, against which farmers have been protesting near Delhi. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the media about the cabinet decision and said his government was "hopeful" that the Governor would accord sanction for the special session. --PTI
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Madhya Pradesh Congress MLAs will arrive at the state Assembly here on tractors on December 28 as a mark of protest against the Centre's three new farm laws and rise in fuel prices, a party legislator said on Thursday. The three-day winter session of the state Assembly will begin from Monday. MP Congress president Kamal Nath has asked all the party MLAs in the state to reach the Congress office in Bhopal on December 28 morning. --PTI
The Centre on Thursday once again wrote to farmer unions asking them to decide the date and time for the next round of talks over the three farm laws -- which has brought thousands of cultivators, primarily from Punjab, at the capital's doorstep. "Govt is committed to reaching logical solutions of the issues raised by you," the letter read.