Centre Asks Farmers To Choose Date For Next Round Of Talks Over New Farm Laws Centre Asks Farmers To Choose Date For Next Round Of Talks Over New Farm Laws Previous five rounds of talks between the government and the unions have failed to break the deadlock with the farmers insisting on repeal of the three laws.
Farmers have been camping at various border points of Delhi for over three weeks now.
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The government on Sunday asked protesting farmer unions to specify their concerns over its earlier proposal of amendments in the new agri laws and choose a convenient date for the next round of talks so that the ongoing agitation could end at the earliest.
Gurpreet and Labh were cremated in the village Tuesday evening.
“Gurpreet Singh was a marginal farmer with one and a half-acre of land. His sister is married. He had gone to Delhi along with other farmers of the village on December 11,” said Sucha Singh, worker of Krantikari Kisan Union( KKU) from Patiala. All the farmers were from KKU.
Labh Singh’s has three children who are married. He was farming on 5 acres of land.
After the accident, Haryana Petrol Pump Dealers Association announced that all petrol pump owners of the state will make arrangements for farmers to stopover for the night at highway petrol pumps so that they can avoid travelling during night hours. “This decision was taken after the post-midnight accident near Karnal,” said Sanjeev Chaudhary, president of the association.
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Farmer unions reject govt s proposals to amend laws, ask not to discredit stir
The Krantikari Kisan Union has written a letter to the Centre wherein it has asked not to engage with other farmers organisations. Its president Darshan Pal said that the union has already rejected the government s proposals sent on December 5 to amend the farm laws.Â
Pal s letter to Agriculture Ministry secretary Vivek Agarwal also said that the government should stop discrediting the farmersâ protests and talk to all farmer groups with equal importance .Â
Explaining why the farmers have rejected the Centre s proposals, he said that the governmentâs written proposal was a compilation of exactly what was conveyed to them in the previous rounds of talks verbally.Â
Krantikari Kisan Union state president Darshan Pal in the written reply to the Union government said that all farmer groups have discussed the proposal sent by the government and rejected that unanimously because it was only the written copy of the verbal proposal of the government s representatives on December 5.
The farmer unions also said in their letter to the government to not to tarnish the image of the farmers’ movement and to stop parallel talks with other farmer organisations.
Notably, the Union government sent a proposal with amendments in the three farm laws, to the farmers joint forum on December 9 after five rounds of talks with the central government were inconclusive.
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Farmers groups officially rejected Centre’s amendment proposal.
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Farmers raising slogans during a protest against new farm laws at Ghazipur, near Delhi on Tuesday, December 15, 2020. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena
Farmers groups officially rejected Centre’s amendment proposal.
Farmer leaders welcomed the Supreme Court’s observations on Wednesday as a “moral victory” but added that setting up a new committee would not resolve their concerns. They also sent an official rejection of the Centre’s proposals to amend the three contentious farm laws, vowing to continue their agitation until the laws are repealed.
Noting that talks between the Centre and the farm leaders had broken no ground and were bound to fail, the apex court proposed setting up a committee of farmer leaders from across the country. Tens of thousands of farmers have been protesting on the borders of Delhi for the last three weeks.