Rakesh Tikait meets Mamata Banerjee and Yashwant Sinha in Kolkata
Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and mentioned the continuing farmers’ agitation towards the Centre’s farm legal guidelines.
Lending her assist Mamata Banerjee said, “Industries are suffering and GST is being levied on medicines. For the last 7 months, they (Central government) didn’t bother to speak to farmers. I demand that all three farm laws are withdrawn.”
Farmer chief Tikait additionally said, “The Chief Minister assured us that she will continue to support the farmers’ movement. We thank her for this assurance. West Bengal should work as a model state and farmers should be given more benefits.”
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Meanwhile, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday additionally said that the federal government is able to resume talks with protesting farmers however requested the unions to level out their objections to the provisions of the three farm legal guidelines with sound logic.
The authorities and unions have held 11 rounds of talks, the final being on January 22, to interrupt the impasse and finish the farmers’ protest.
Talks haven’t resumed following widespread violence throughout a tractor rally by protesting farmers on January 26.
Thousands of farmers, primarily from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been tenting at Delhi’s borders for greater than six months in protest towards the three legal guidelines that they are saying will finish state procurement of crops at MSP.
The Supreme Court has placed on maintain the implementation of the three legal guidelines until additional orders and arrange a committee to search out options.
“All political parties of the country wanted to bring the farm laws, but they could not gather courage to bring them. Modi government took this big step in the interest of farmers and brought reforms. Farmers got benefit of that in several parts of the country. But in the meantime farmers agitation started,” Tomar said at a Cabinet briefing.
