Firm on demand of repealing farm legal guidelines; determination on future motion after tractor parade, say farmers

Image Source : PTI Lucknow: Farmers, below the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union, throughout their march to Raj Bhavan to current a memorandum to UP Governor towards Centre’s farm reform legal guidelines, in Lucknow, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021.
Protesting farmer leaders on Saturday remained agency on their demand of an entire repeal of the three contentious farm legal guidelines and mentioned their fast focus is on the January 26 tractor parade. The union leaders mentioned the following plan of action will likely be determined solely after the tractor parade. Farmer leaders held a marathon assembly on Saturday to rethink the federal government’s proposal to place the legislations on maintain for 18 months, however no consensus might be reached.
This got here a day after the federal government requested the farmer leaders to revert by Saturday in case they comply with its proposal to droop the legislations.
“Since the beginning of our agitation, our demand is very clear. We want a complete repeal of these three laws, and we will not settle for anything less than the repeal of the new farm laws,” Haryana Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni mentioned.
He mentioned that farmer unions are at present specializing in their proposed January 26 tractor parade, and after Republic Day, they may resolve on the following plan of action.
Unlike the final 10 rounds of talks between the federal government and the farmer union leaders, the eleventh spherical on Friday noticed either side hardening their positions. They couldn’t even attain a call on the following date for a gathering.

This adopted an enormous climbdown made by the Centre within the talks on Wednesday when it supplied to droop the legal guidelines for 1-1.5 years and type a joint committee to seek out options, in return for protesting farmers going again to their respective houses from Delhi borders.
Thousands of farmers, principally from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been tenting at a number of Delhi border factors since November 28 final yr, demanding a repeal of three farm legal guidelines and a authorized assure on MSP for his or her crops.
Enacted in September final yr, the three legal guidelines have been projected by the Centre as main reforms within the agriculture sector that may take away middlemen and permit farmers to promote their produce anyplace within the nation.
However, the protesting farmers have expressed their apprehension that the brand new legal guidelines would pave the way in which for eliminating the protection cushion of MSP and put off the ‘mandi’ (wholesale market) system, leaving them on the mercy of huge corporates.
(With PTI inputs)

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