‘Tareekh pe takeekh’: Govt to carry ninth spherical of talks with farmer unions right now

New Delhi: The Union authorities on Friday will maintain the ninth spherical of talks with the representatives of farmer unions protesting on the borders of Delhi towards the three agricultural legal guidelines handed over the last monsoon session of Parliament.
The assembly is scheduled to begin at 2 pm in Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan.
Ahead of the talks, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait, utilizing a authorized metaphor mentioned that the federal government is giving dates for court docket hearings with no case in place.
“Government is giving tareekh pe takeekh (dates after dates) with a case. They (the government) are also trying to using the probable spread of the COVID-19 virus as an excuse to end our protest. Political parties held large gatherings during the Bihar elections and also in Telangana. If COVID-19 starts spreading here we’ll see,” he acknowledged.

He reiterated that farmers will go residence after the federal government listened to the calls for of protesters and repeal the legal guidelines.
Tikait additional mentioned that farmers have deliberate to take out a tractor march together with the tanks of the Indian military through the Republic day parade.
“We are going to take out a tractor march on January 26 with the Indian army. Army tanks will be on one side and the tractors on the other. A hundred tractors will march with one tableau. The government should make full preparations regarding this,” he added.

Earlier, the eighth spherical of talks between farmers and the Centre that befell on January 4, was inconclusive. After the assembly Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar had mentioned the dialogue couldn’t attain any “solution” because the farmer unions remained “adamant” over repealing of three farm legal guidelines.
Farmers have been protesting on the gates of Delhi since November 26 final yr towards the newly enacted farm legal guidelines — Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance, and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.