New Delhi: Regardless of a marathon assembly with two Union ministers that lasted for 5 hours, farmer leaders declared that they weren’t happy with the federal government’s response to their calls for and introduced that they’d march to Delhi on Tuesday. Sarwan Singh Pandher, a farmer chief, advised the media that the federal government was not critical about addressing their points and that that they had no alternative however to accentuate their agitation. “We don’t suppose they wish to fulfil our calls for… Tomorrow, we are going to march in direction of Delhi at 10 am,” he mentioned.
The assembly, which was the second spherical of talks between the farmer leaders and the Centre, was held on the Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration in Sector 26. The ministers who represented the federal government have been Piyush Goyal, the Meals and Shopper Affairs Minister, and Arjun Munda, the Agriculture Minister.
The farmer leaders, who belonged to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, amongst others, mentioned numerous points with the ministers, however couldn’t attain a consensus on their primary demand of a authorized assure to the minimal help worth (MSP) for crops.
Sources mentioned that the federal government agreed to a few of the farmers’ calls for, equivalent to withdrawing the circumstances in opposition to them filed in the course of the 2020-21 protest in opposition to the farm legal guidelines that have been later repealed, and giving compensation to the households of the farmers who misplaced their lives in the course of the agitation. Nevertheless, these concessions weren’t sufficient to placate the farmers, who insisted on a authorized backing to the MSP.
Pandher mentioned that the federal government didn’t present any willingness to present them what they needed and that they needed to take a agency stand. “We advised them to take a choice. They didn’t take any choice on the farmers’ demand of giving authorized assure to the minimal help worth,” he mentioned.
The farmers additionally demanded the implementation of the Swaminathan Fee’s suggestions, pensions for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, withdrawal of police circumstances and justice for the victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act 2013, withdrawal from the World Commerce Organisation, and compensation for the households of the farmers who died in the course of the earlier agitation, amongst others.
The farmer leaders have been accompanied by Punjab Cupboard Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, who mentioned that the state authorities supported their trigger. Punjab’s Chief Secretary Anurag Verma and Director Common of Police Gaurav Yadav have been additionally current within the assembly.
Earlier than heading to Chandigarh for the talks, the farmer leaders had a gathering in Amb Sahib in Punjab’s Mohali. The primary assembly with the Union ministers was held on February 8, wherein the farmer organisations had an in depth dialogue with the federal government.
