farmers protest
Chandigarh: Before the talks with the government on Sunday, farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher demanded from the Central Government to bring an ordinance to give legal guarantee to the Minimum Support Price (MSP). Farmers are standing in Shambhu and Khanauri on the border of Punjab and Haryana with their various demands and their main demand is to provide legal guarantee of MSP. This statement of farmer leader Pandher has come at a time when the fourth round of talks is to be held between the farmer leader and the Union Ministers tomorrow on Sunday. “If the central government wants, it can bring an ordinance overnight,” Pandher told reporters at the Shambhu border. If the government wants a solution to the farmers’ movement, then it should bring an ordinance that it will implement the law on MSP, then the talks can move forward.
It is a matter of the will of the government- Pandher
Pandher said that as far as procedures are concerned, any ordinance is valid for six months. On the issue of farm loan waiver, Pandher said that the government is saying that the loan amount will have to be assessed. He said, “The government can collect data from banks in this regard. It is a matter of will power.” Union Minister Arjun Munda, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai in the ongoing talks on various demands of farmer unions including legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops. Are representing.
The talks were inconclusive on 12th February
The meeting between farmer leaders and three Union ministers started at around 8:45 pm on Thursday night and continued for five hours but no consensus was reached between the two parties. Now the fourth round of talks between the two sides will be held on February 18. Earlier, talks were held on 8th and 12th February which remained inconclusive.
Apart from legal guarantee for MSP, implementation of Swaminathan Commission recommendations for welfare of farmers, pension and loan waiver for farmers and farm laborers, “justice” for victims of Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of Land Acquisition Act 2013. They are also demanding compensation to the families of the farmers killed during the previous agitation. (input language)
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