Protests enter 19th day but govt holds out hope Mumbai Mirror / Updated: Dec 15, 2020, 07:01 IST Agriculture minister says govt engaging with farmers to resume dialogue. #NEW DELHI Farmer leaders on Monday went on a daylong hunger strike and their colleagues demonstrated in different parts of the country to push for a rollback of the new farm laws, as Union minister Rajnath Singh said there is no question of the government ever taking any “retrograde step” against the agriculture sector. On Day 19 of the protest at Delhi’s border points when agriculturalists from multiple states in the north intensified their movement, particularly at Delhi’s gateways,