Responding to a question on farmers’ outburst against two corporate houses (Adani and Ambani) as they believe the farm laws will only benefit them, Tomar said he would not consider such people farmers who either initiate or end discussions taking names of these corporate houses.
Noting that taking names of these corporate houses in any discussion was only meant to divert attention from real issues, the minister said farmers’ representatives should ideally stick to issues which were being discussed with the government.
Appealing to farmers’ unions to come for talks, Tomar said the answer to any ‘andolan’ (movement) in history was not ‘andolan’. “Solutions can be found only through discussions and I am confident to arrive at solutions through discussions in the coming days,” he said, adding that he was pained at farmers’ plight in this cold and pandemic situation.
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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 ar
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