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Driving a hard bargain; not to secure the farmer but his political master January 25, 2021, 10:23 AM IST
Lakshmi Iyer is a journalist worked with Mumbai Mirror, who has been covering politics for three decades in Delhi & Mumbai.
As protests by farmers ,mainly from Punjab, against three farm laws completes eight weeks this Republic Day, one stark message emerges from the spirited men encircling Delhi. Which is that the highway logjam is no ordinary protest about a few laws . It is more of a hard political bargain that is being driven in the name of farmers. The protests seem more aimed at reviving fortunes of a moribund political party than is connected to improving the lot of the ordinary farmer ; it is more intent on hobbling the Narendra Modi Government that decisively won 2019 Lok Sabha elections than perhaps finding ways to end the logjam .
The farmers plan a tractor rally on January 26 if their demands are not met.
Highlights
If talks fail, farmers will go ahead with the tractor rally on January 26
Farmers want states to bring in their own separate laws
New Delhi:
An eighth round of talks between the centre and farmer leaders protesting the agriculture laws was held on Friday but it failed to break a months-long deadlock between the parties, who remain divided on two key issues - the repeal of the laws and a legal guarantee for MSP.
Sources said the centre (represented by Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal) continues to insist the laws will benefit farmers. The farmers continue to demand the centre roll them back and allow state governments to enact their own rules.
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NEW DELHI: Amid uncertainty over the outcome of continuing talks, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday met one more farmer organisation that has come forward in support of the central farm laws even as unions opposed to the legislation termed his meeting an “exercise to manufacture support”.
The meeting appeared to be in tune with what Tomar has argued in every round of talks with the farmers’ unions where he emphasised on consulting farm organisations from every state before taking a decision as the laws are meant for the entire country. The next round of talks is scheduled for Friday.