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LIVE: Farmers' unions to hold a meeting today over tomorrow's 'chakka jam'
Farmers' protest LIVE updates: The farmers' unions to hold a meeting today to decide the next course of action for the ongoing agitation
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Farm Bills | Farmer protest | Punjab farmers
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Last Updated at February 5, 2021 08:23 IST
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Farmers' protest LIVE updates Day 72: The farmers' unions protesting at the Singhu border against the three Central farm laws will hold a meeting today to decide the next course of action for the ongoing agitation.
The meeting will be held a day before a nationwide a 'Chakka Jam' for three hours on February 6.
MPs from 10 Opposition parties on Thursday wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla saying that the situation at Ghazipur border was like that of India-Pakistan border and condition of farmers resembles prisoners in jail.
Fifteen MPs from these parties including SAD, DMK, NCP and Trinamool Congress were stopped by police from meeting the protesting farmers at Ghazipur border in the morning.
According to SAD MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal who coordinated the visit, the leaders were not allowed to cross the barricades and reach the protest site.
During a discussion in Parliament on Thursday, several opposition parties asked the government to withdraw the three contentious farm laws without making it a prestige issue and not to treat the agitating farmers as "enemies".
Stringent security continued at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, one of the key protest sites where thousands of farmers are camping with a demand that the Centre repeal the new agri-marketing laws enacted last September.
The protesting farmers have expressed the apprehension that these laws would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum support price (MSP) system, leaving them at the "mercy" of big corporations.
However, the government has maintained that the new laws will bring better opportunities to farmers and introduce new technologies in agriculture.
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