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Two Congress MPs from Punjab on Sunday said the Centre should withdraw the recent stubble burning ordinance and the Electricity Amendment Bill before its next round of talks with protesting farmer unions so that the dialogue to end the stalemate over three agri-marketing laws can progress smoothly. The government must earn trust of the protesting farmers, said parliamentarians Ravneet Singh Bittu and Jasbir Singh Gill who have been staging a sit-in at Jantar Mantar here for three weeks now in solidarity with the ongoing agitation. Farmer groups protesting against the Centre s three farm laws have proposed a meeting with the government at 11 am on December 29. Previously, several rounds of talks between the farmer unions and the government have failed to break the deadlock.
Farmers’ protest: Four-point agenda put forward by farmer unions for December 29 meet with Centre
In their letter to the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, farmer unions have listed four points which will serve as their agenda for the next round of talks on December 29. December 27, 2020 / 09:27 AM IST
File image: Farmers sit in the trolley of a tractor parked in front of police barricade as they block a major highway during a protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on December 5, 2020 (Image: AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Farmer unions protesting against the agricultural reform laws on December 26 accepted Centre s offer to resume talks and end the deadlock. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 40 farmer unions protesting at various border points of Delhi.
Farmer unions agree to return to table: Next round of talks Tuesday
Following deliberations on the government offer for talks, farmer unions, under the banner of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, told the press at Singhu border Saturday the protest at Delhi’s gates is now a month old that talks with the government will be held at 11 am Tuesday. Updated: December 27, 2020 8:15:07 am
The unions warned that they will intensify their agitation by increasing blockades on highways of Delhi NCR if the talks do not lead to a tangible solution. (Express file photo by Abhinav Saha)
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the government is
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh/New Delhi, December 26
The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, a joint forum of farmers’ organisations protesting at the Delhi borders against the Centre’s farm laws, today decided to resume dialogue with the government. It has proposed December 29 as the date for talks.
The Morcha put forth a four-point agenda modalities for repealing the three farm laws and a mechanism for remunerative MSP (as recommended by the National Farmers’ Commission) and a legally guaranteed entitlement for agricultural commodities. The other two proposals are amendments to the Commission for the Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance in order to exclude farmers from the ordinance’s penal provisions and lastly changes in the draft Electricity Amendment Bill to safeguard the interests of the farmers. The Morcha wanted the dialogue to proceed in that order.