Farmers’ Protest: Centre, Farmers’ to hold fresh talks today on three farm laws

After the agitating of farmers tractor rallies for new farm laws and the Centre asserted it is ready to consider any proposal other than their repeal.

While rumors say that some states have been allowed to opt-out of the Centre’s laws but the agitating unions said they had not received any such proposal from the government.

Farmer leader Shiv Kumar Kakka, a senior member of the Samkyukt Kisan Morch, said that unions have not received any proposal for allowing some states to opt-out and asserted that they will reject the same if it is sent to them.

Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) chief Joginder Singh Ugrahan also denied receiving any such proposal from the Centre.

Meanwhile, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar made it clear that the government is ready to consider any proposal other than the repeal of three farm laws, which has been the key demand of the farmers.

On Thursday, the agitating farmers took out tractor marches from protest sites of Singhu, Tikri, and Ghazipur borders and Haryana’s Rewasan as the unions asserted they would not accept the Centre’s offer of amendments to the three farm laws.

According to the protesting farm unions, these marches were a “rehearsal” for their proposed January 26 “Kisan parade” to the national capital from different parts of Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh.

The fresh round of talks will be held at 2 PM on Friday at Delhi’s Vigyan Bhavan and is critical as the previous meeting on January 4 remained inconclusive with both sides sticking to their positions. Even as both sides look for a resolution to the deadlock which has lasted more than a month.