MUMBAI: The All India Kisan Sabha on Friday said it would join farmers protesting in Delhi against the new farm laws introduced by the Centre.
The announcement was made in Nashik by AIKS leaders Ajit Nawale and Ashok Dhawale, Centre for Indian Trade Unions state president Dr D M Darar and Sunil Malusare among others. The three laws are aimed at allowing corporates to make profits at the cost of farmers. To oppose them, we will leave from Nashik on December 21 and take part in the protests underway. Thousands of farmers are expected to join us, said Dhawale.
Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, are protesting at Delhi borders for more than three weeks. At least five rounds of formal talks have been held between the Centre and 40 farmer unions to break the deadlock, but the unions are demanding complete rollback of these laws.
Farmers shout slogans as they participate in a protest at the Singhu border on Friday in Delhi. Getty Images
NEW DELHI: As the farmers’ protest entered the 23rd day on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended the three agri laws and said the legislations were brought as they were being demanded by political parties, experts and the farmers themselves. On the other side, the agitation affected traffic movement on Jaipur-Delhi highway for the sixth day.
Here are the top developments of the day:
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that political parties, experts and even farmers had been demanding new farm laws for long, and assured that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) mechanism for crops will continue. Addressing farmers of Madhya Pradesh through virtual mode, he alleged that opposition parties themselves advocated such laws, but now they were protesting because they did not want him to get credit for the reforms. The government was ready to talk with farmers, the prime mi
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