Besides a authorized assure of MSP, farmers are additionally demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s suggestions amongst different issues.
Farmer leaders participating within the ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation have rejected the federal government proposal to purchase pulses, maize and cotton at MSP. In the fourth spherical of talks with farmer leaders, a panel of three Union ministers on Sunday proposed shopping for of pulses, maize and cotton crops by authorities businesses at minimal assist costs (MSP) for 5 years after coming into into an settlement with farmers.
Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee General Secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher mentioned, “The Centre says something else in the discussions and while speaking at the press conference outside, they say different things. We have not given any proposal. We will move towards Delhi on February 21 at 11 am.”
Besides a authorized assure of MSP, farmers are additionally demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s suggestions, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, no hike in electrical energy tariff, withdrawal of police circumstances and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the households of farmers who died throughout a earlier agitation in 2020-21.
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Union (*21*) of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, Agriculture and Farmer Welfare (*21*) Arjun Munda, and (*21*) of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai held the fourth spherical of talks with the farmer leaders over their calls for as hundreds of protesting farmers had been tenting on the Punjab-Haryana border.
Protesting farmers from Punjab have been tenting at Shambhu and Khanauri factors on the state’s border with Haryana since February 13 when their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march was halted by police. The name for the march was given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha to press their calls for.
(With inputs from PTI)
