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Yielding some ground to end the nearly two-month-long protest by thousands of farmers on the national capital borders, the government on Wednesday proposed to suspend the three contentious farm laws for 1-1.5 years and set up a joint committee to find an amicable solution in the interest of the farming community.
During their tenth round of negotiations with three central ministers, the two sides decided to meet again on Friday after the union leaders hold their own internal consultations on Thursday to decide on the government s new proposal.
Briefing media after a nearly five-hour-long meeting that included two breaks, Union Agriculture Minister
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Unions to study proposal, return for talks on January 22.
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Farmers protesting against agriculture farm laws even as 10th round meeting of Farmer leaders with center government, this here is scene at GT Karnal Road Singhu Border in Delhi on Wednesday. January 20, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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Unions to study proposal, return for talks on January 22.
Farm union leaders will consider a proposal from the Central government to suspend the implementation of three contentious farm laws for the next one and a half years while a committee is formed to look into their demands.
The next meeting between the Centre and farmer leaders have been scheduled for January 22, a day after the farmer unions hold their internal discussions on Thursday. The 10th round of talks ended at Vigyan Bhawan after nearly five hours of talks, including two breaks. "The government proposed to suspend the farm laws for one and a half years..we will meet tomorrow and deliberate over it," said Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan).
Farmers unions said on Wednesday they would get back to the government about its proposal to suspend three contested agriculture laws for one and half years, marking the outcome of a tenth round of talks between the two sides. 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, held talks with representatives of 40 farmer unions at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi. The government proposed to suspend the farm laws for one and a half years. We rejected the proposal but since it has come from the government, we will meet tomorrow and deliberate over it, said Joginder Singh Ugrahan, president of Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan), which is part of the talks. The two sides will meet again on January 22.