Government-farmer meeting ends; Next round on January 19
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Farmer leader Joginder Singh Ugrahan told reporters after the meeting that the unions urged the government to repeal the three laws, but the Centre was unwilling to do so.
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NEW DELHI: Protesting farmer unions stuck to their demand for a complete repeal of three contentious farm laws at their ninth round of talks with three central ministers but while the government asked them to be more flexible in their approach and expressed willingness for necessary amendments, as the two sides decided to meet again on January 19.
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Farmer leaders to attend ninth round of talks with Centre on agri laws without much hope
The ninth round of talks between Central government and farmer unions will be held in New Delhi today. Ahead of the talks, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said that the government is ready to hold talks with farmers leaders with an open mind and expressed hope for positive discussions.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Supreme Court had stayed the implementation of three farm laws till further orders. It had also announced the formation of a committee to hear the grievances of the farmers and the opinion of the government. Bhartiya Kisan Union president Bhupinder Singh Mann, Shetkari Sanghatana Maharashtra president Anil Ghanwat, International Food Policy Research Institute s Pramod Kumar Joshi and agriculture economist Ashok Gulati were appointed on the panel. Mann, however, on Thursday recused himself from the four-m
Supreme Court to take up pleas connected to farm laws on Monday
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Fri, Jan 15 2021 17:27 IST |
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SC to take up pleas connected to farm laws on Monday. Image Source: IANS
New Delhi, Jan 15 : The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday the pleas challenging the three farm laws and also the pleas seeking the removal of farmers camping at various Delhi borders.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao and Vincent Saran will take up the petitions on January 18. On January 12, the top court stayed the implementation of the three farm laws until further orders.
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Narendra Singh Tomar, Piyush Goyal, and other dignitaries during the ninth round of talks with farmer leaders over the new farm laws at Vigyan Bhawan on Friday.
The ninth round of talks between the government and protesting farmer unions ended without any major conclusion on Friday. The meeting which continued for over five hours failed to break the deadlock over the three farm laws. Both the sides will now meet again on January 19. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Railways, Commerce and Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash, who is an MP from Punjab, were present during the meeting with the representatives of around 40 farmer unions which was held at the Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi.
Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, are protesting at various border points of Delhi for over a month now against the three laws.