New Delhi: Despite a marathon assembly with two Union ministers that lasted for 5 hours, farmer leaders declared that they weren’t glad with the federal government’s response to their calls for and introduced that they might march to Delhi on Tuesday. Sarwan Singh Pandher, a farmer chief, instructed the media that the federal government was not severe about addressing their points and that that they had no selection however to accentuate their agitation. “We do not think they want to fulfil our demands… Tomorrow, we will march towards 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 had been Piyush Goyal, the Food and Consumer 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 varied points with the ministers, however couldn’t attain a consensus on their major demand of a authorized assure to the minimal assist value (MSP) for crops.
Sources mentioned that the federal government agreed to among the farmers’ calls for, equivalent to withdrawing the circumstances in opposition to them filed throughout the 2020-21 protest in opposition to the farm legal guidelines that had been later repealed, and giving compensation to the households of the farmers who misplaced their lives throughout the agitation. However, 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 offer them what they needed and that they needed to take a agency stand. “We told them to take a decision. They did not take any decision on the farmers’ demand of giving legal guarantee to the minimum support price,” he mentioned.
The farmers additionally demanded the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’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 Trade Organisation, and compensation for the households of the farmers who died throughout the earlier agitation, amongst others.
The farmer leaders had been accompanied by Punjab Cabinet Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, who mentioned that the state authorities supported their trigger. Punjab’s Chief Secretary Anurag Verma and Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav had been additionally current within the assembly.
Before heading to Chandigarh for the talks, the farmer leaders had a gathering in Amb Sahib in Punjab’s Mohali. The first assembly with the Union ministers was held on February 8, during which the farmer organisations had an in depth dialogue with the federal government.
