Yogendra Yadav threatens govt once more on the farmer protests

Even after the central authorities’s curt refusal to permit any political persona to be concerned in negotiations with the farmers’ unions, Icchadhari protester Yogendra Yadav, a political activist and former psephologist, has been stubbornly making an attempt to have an effect on his significance by forcing himself into the continued negotiations.
Two days after the Centre agreed to 2 of the calls for made by the protesting farmers’ unions, Yadav as we speak dished out yet one more menace to the federal government stating that if their remaining calls for should not accepted by the federal government within the subsequent spherical of talks scheduled to happen on January 4, they’ll maintain a march at Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) on January 6. He additionally added that they’ll shortly announce a date on after they would transfer ahead from Shahjahanpur border.
The claims that fifty p.c of points have been resolved are false. Our two primary calls for — three farm payments needs to be scrapped and authorized assure on Minimum Support Price (MSP) are nonetheless pending: Yogendra Yadav, Swaraj India https://t.co/FLmyCoP7As— ANI (@ANI) January 1, 2021
Rejecting the claims that fifty per cent of their calls for had been met, Icchadhari protester Yogendra Yadav alleged that their primary calls for in regards to the scrapping of the three newly launched Farm Laws and a assure on the MSP are nonetheless pending.
Yadav’s demand comes days after the central authorities agreed to farmers’ demand to exclude farmers from the penal provisions of the Commission for the Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance 2020. It additionally agreed to not pursue the draft Electricity Amendment Bill 2020. 
In the identical press convention, Haryana farmer chief Vikas Sisar threatened to topple the Haryana authorities over the farm legal guidelines. He mentioned that each one petrol pumps and malls can be forcefully shut down. The activist claimed that the protests will proceed until the alliance between BJP and Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) breaks, inflicting the govt. to fall.

In Haryana, all toll plazas will stay free. All the petrol pumps & malls, besides personal, can be shut. Leaders of BJP & Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) will face protests within the state & this may proceed until their govt of alliance breaks: Vikas Sisar, Haryana farmer chief pic.twitter.com/gFKPO63aKk— ANI (@ANI) January 1, 2021

Yogendra Yadav makes an attempt to hijack farmer-government talks along with his maximalist calls for
However, it seems that Yadav seeks to use the centre’s amenability to the hilt and hustle them into agreeing to all of the calls for posed by the protesters. Ever because the ‘intellectuals’ have taken over the so-called farmers’ protests towards the federal government, they’ve sought to delude a bit of protesters into believing that the central authorities might be cowed into submission by dint of protests and demonstrations.
To this finish, they’ve even expanded the scope of their calls for from the preliminary farm legal guidelines that triggered the protests. Earlier on Wednesday, Yadav addressed individuals by way of periscope the place he revealed the 4 core calls for that the ‘farmers’ would talk about on the talks proposed with the federal government later that day. He had then said 4 key calls for—repeal of farm legal guidelines, market intervention and different potential measures for MSP, annulment of stubble burning legal guidelines that punish farmers and withdrawal of the draft electrical energy invoice.
Despite being a non-entity within the negotiations, Yadav has been thrusting himself within the discussions with a maximalist place that’s doing extra hurt than good to the farmers’ trigger. The intent right here is clearly ‘My way or the high way’ which is evidently not how an individual approaches sincere negotiations. The motive of such a transfer is to push the central authorities to the wall and compel them to name off the talks in order that they might be later vilified as anti-farmers.
Modi authorities bars Yogendra Yadav from attending the farmer-government talks
It is pertinent to notice that the Centre had earlier final month prevented political activist and self-proclaimed psephologist Yogendra Yadav from inviting himself and presenting himself as part of the delegation of farmers that held talks with the federal government.
The authorities didn’t need any political persona to be related in negotiations with the farmers’ union and expressed their displeasure when Yogendra Yadav tried to mission himself as a farmers’ consultant. Since then, Yadav has been making an attempt onerous to snivel his method into the farmer-govt talks and make himself related within the ongoing negotiations. He has been periodically addressing media and convening press conferences, making outrageous calls for on behalf of the ‘farmers’, in a bid to display that he nonetheless holds significance. It seems that Yogendra Yadav is discovering it tough to reconcile to the truth that the central authorities has shunted him out of the negotiations.