Farmers' meet with Govt ends after 3 hours, another round of talks on 3 Dec

NEW DELHI: The meeting between the agitating farmers' leaders and the union government concluded on Tuesday. The next round of talks is now scheduled to be held on 3 December.

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar stated that the meeting was "good" and that the next round of talks shall be held on 3 December. "We wanted a small group to be constituted but farmers' leaders wanted that the talks should be held with everyone," he said.

The Minister has also appealed to the farmers to suspend the protests and come for the talks.

Chanda Singh, Member of farmers' delegation who met Tomar stated that the movement against farm laws will continue and they will definitely take back something from the government.

Meanwhile, BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) President Joginder Singh Ugrahan said government's meeting with protesting farmer unions remained inconclusive.

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It is pertinent to mention here that the government on Tuesday offered to set up a committee to look into issues raised by farmers protesting against new farm laws, but it was rejected by representatives of 35 agitating organisations during their marathon meeting with three union ministers that ended without any resolution.

The meeting remained inconclusive and the government has called for another round of discussions on Thursday, December 3, union leaders said.

The protesting farmers fear that the Centre's farm laws would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum support price system.

The government has maintained that the new laws will bring farmers better opportunities and usher in new technologies in agriculture.

At the nearly three-hour-long meeting at Vigyan Bhawan here, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar was accompanied by Railways and Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash, also an MP from Punjab.

"The farmer's organizations rejected the government's proposal to form a five-member committee to look into the issues related to the new farm laws," Roopsingh Sanha, member of Bharat Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan), said.

The government remains firm that a high-level committee must be formed to look into the issues.

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