No Alternative To Demands For MSP Guarantee, Repealing Farm Laws: Farmer Leaders

New Delhi:

There is not any different to farmers’ calls for of authorized assure for MSP and repealing the brand new agri legal guidelines, farmer leaders mentioned on Thursday, a day after talks between the Centre and the protesting unions remained deadlocked over the 2 contentious points.

However, the federal government and farmer unions after practically 5 hours of the sixth spherical of negotiations on Wednesday reached some frequent floor to resolve protesting farmers’ issues over rise in energy tariff and penalties for stubble burning.

Thousands of farmers, primarily from Punjab and Haryana, are protesting at numerous borders of the nationwide capital for greater than a month towards the legal guidelines and are demanding that these be repealed.

Senior farmer chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni mentioned that the Samkyukt Kisan Morcha has referred to as one other assembly on Friday to debate the subsequent plan of action. However, there is no such thing as a query of withdrawing from the 2 points that are authorized assure for minimal help worth (MSP) and repealing of the farm legal guidelines, he mentioned.

“The government has addressed our demands to drop penal provisions against farmers in an ordinance relating to stubble burning and to put on hold a proposed electricity amendment law,” Mr Chaduni mentioned.

“But, we want to make it clear that there is no alternative to our two remaining demands which include repeal of the three agriculture laws and legal guarantee for MSP,” he mentioned.

The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, one of many protesting farm unions, issued an announcement on Thursday, saying that the Centre’s enchantment to farmer leaders to recommend a substitute for repeal of the legal guidelines is not possible.

“The new laws will hand over control of agriculture markets, farmers’ land and food chain to corporates,” AIKSCC claimed in its assertion.

It acknowledged that except these farm legal guidelines are repealed, there is no such thing as a scope to debate professional farmer modifications in “mandis” (markets) and farm processes for making certain doubling of farmers’ revenue.

After attending the assembly with Union ministers on Wednesday, All India Kisan Sabha chief and CPI(M) politburo member Hannan Mollah had mentioned, “The discussion has not broken, it is on. Out of four issues on the agenda, two have been addressed and the remaining two — MSP legalisation and repeal of three laws — are to be resolved.”

“The government’s attitude was soft (sarkar ka ravaiya naram tha). The government said it has agreed to two demands and there are complexities in the rest two. They asked us to send a fresh proposal based on today’s discussion,” he had mentioned.

The sixth spherical of talks was initially scheduled for December 9 nevertheless it was referred to as off after a casual assembly of Home Minister Amit Shah with some union leaders failed to achieve any breakthrough.

The three Union ministers on the Wednesday assembly have been Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Food and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash they usually met a 41-member consultant group of the hundreds of protesting farmers.

The protests are being staged towards the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

The authorities has introduced these legal guidelines, enacted in September, as main agriculture reforms aimed toward serving to farmers and growing their revenue, however the protesting unions concern that the brand new legislations have left them on the mercy of massive corporates by weakening the MSP and “mandi” techniques.