Asserting that farmers will not move from protest sites till the government withdrew cases registered against them during stir against farm laws, Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Saturday formed a five-member panel to talk to the government to discuss their demands including on MSP. A decision on the next course of action by SKM, an umbrella body of 40 farmer unions, will be
A five-member committee has been named by the SKM to hold talks with the Centre. They have been empowered to hold talks with the government on behalf of the farmers' union.
Days after the Centre agreed and invited farmers’ leaders to hold talks to address MSP and other related demands, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar advised farmers to call off their protest and go back home.
Friday’s anniversary mobilisation had been planned before Narendra Modi’s surprise announcement on November 19 of a decision to repeal three controversial farm laws