Union Ministers Hold Talks with Farm Leaders; Farmers Adamant on Legal Guarantee to MSP

A group of Union ministers on Monday night held talks right here with farmer leaders in a bid to dissuade them from their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, and the Centre is learnt to have agreed to withdraw the circumstances towards the farmers registered throughout the 2020-21 agitation.

Nevertheless, sources mentioned farmer leaders have been adamant on a authorized assure to minimal help value for crops, which is certainly one of their key calls for. The ministers — Meals and Client Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal and Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda — held the second spherical of talks with the farmer leaders on the Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration in Sector 26.

Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) chief Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee basic secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher, amongst others, have been a part of the assembly, which started at round 6:30 pm. The assembly continued until late night time.

In the course of the assembly, the delegation of the Centre is learnt to have agreed to withdraw the circumstances towards the farmers registered throughout the 2020-21 agitation towards the now-repealed farm legal guidelines, mentioned sources. The Union ministers are additionally believed to have agreed to present compensation to any ignored households of farmers who died throughout the earlier agitation.

The sources additional mentioned the Central ministers have been additionally discussing varied different calls for of the farmers throughout the assembly. One of many farmer leaders, who participated within the assembly, instructed reporters that their foremost calls for included authorized assure to the MSP and debt waiver.

Punjab Cupboard Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, who additionally attended the assembly, mentioned the state authorities stands with the farmers. Moreover a authorized assure for minimal help value (MSP), the farmers are additionally demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Fee’s suggestions, pensions for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, withdrawal of police circumstances and “justice” for victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstate the Land Acquisition Act 2013, withdraw from the World Commerce Organisation, compensation for households of farmers died throughout the earlier agitation, amongst others.

The SKM (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have introduced that farmers would head to Delhi on Tuesday to press the Centre to simply accept their calls for. Moreover farmer leaders, Punjab authorities’s senior officers together with Chief Secretary Anurag Verma and Director Basic of Police Gaurav Yadav have been additionally current within the assembly.

Earlier, the farmer leaders, who have been collaborating within the talks in Chandigarh, held a gathering in Amb Sahib in Punjab’s Mohali earlier than leaving for town. The primary assembly with the Union ministers was held on February 8 by which detailed discussions with the leaders of farmer organisations passed off.

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