Centre Asks Protesting Farmers to Specify Concerns, Choose Date for Further Talks
Five rounds of talks between the government and the unions have failed to break the deadlock.
Farmers light candles to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in farmers agitation, during their sit-in protest against the Centres farm reform laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Sunday, December 20, 2020. Photo: PTI/Kamal Singh
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New Delhi: The government on Sunday asked protesting farmers’ unions to specify their concerns over its earlier proposal of amendments in the new agricultural laws and choose a convenient date for the next round of talks so that the ongoing agitation could end at the earliest.
A day after Facebook temporarily shut down a page on the ongoing farmers agitation against the Centre s new farm laws, the protestors on Monday said social media was crucial for their movement as it allowed them to tell the truth in their our own words. The social media giant had Sunday evening shut down the page of Kisan Ekta Morcha that shares official updates on the agitation, only to restore it three hours later following social media outrage. The Kisan Ekta Morcha s Instagram page was also temporarily suspended. Social media plays an important role in our movement. While all kinds of media are writing about us, social media helps us tell our truth in our own words. The godi media will never show the reality, but on social media, we can share what is actually happening, Himmat Singh, a farmer camping at Singhu border, said.
Intensifying their agitation against the Centre s new agri laws, farmers began their day-long relay hunger strike on a chilly Monday morning at all sites of protest on Delhi s borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Protesting farmers will participate in the hunger strike in batches and the first has 11 members, according to farmer leaders. Thousands of agriculturists, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, are protesting against the laws for the last over four weeks at various border points of Delhi and demanding that the legislations be repealed. Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav had on Sunday said, Farmers will begin a day-long relay hunger strike on Monday at all sites of protest against the new agri laws. It will be started by a team of 11 members at protests sites here, including the Singhu border.
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NEW DELHI: Intensifying their agitation against the Centre s new agri laws, farmers began their day-long relay hunger strike on a chilly Monday morning at all sites of protest on Delhi s borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Protesting farmers will participate in the hunger strike in batches and the first has 11 members, according to farmer leaders.
Thousands of agriculturists, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, are protesting against the laws for the last over four weeks at various border points of Delhi and demanding that the legislations be repealed.
Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav had on Sunday said, Farmers will begin a day-long relay hunger strike on Monday at all sites of protest against the new agri laws. It will be started by a team of 11 members at protests sites here, including the Singhu border.
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