Farmers gather outside the Babasaheb Ambedkar Garden opposite collector's office at Bandra in Mumbai on Tuesday to protest against the agri laws.
NEW DELHI: While sticking to their demand of scrapping the three agri laws, the 32 farmers’ unions protesting against the legislation on Tuesday deferred their decision over resuming talks with the Centre to Wednesday. On the other hand, the government has expressed the hope that the farmers would once again come to the negotiating table.
These are the 10 key developments of the day:
1. As farmers' agitation against three farm laws entered its 27th day, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar said he is hopeful that protesting unions would soon complete their internal discussions and resume talks with the government to resolve the crisis. He met two more peasants' bodies from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh that extended support to the legislation. "Representatives of different farmers' bodies had come to tell that the laws are good and are in the interest of farmers. They had come to urge the government not make any amendments to the laws," Tomar said after meeting the two groups and added that he was hopeful the protesting farmers' unions would soon complete their internal discussions and come forward for talks. “We will be able to find a solution successfully," the minister said.