Eighth round of talks between Centre and farmer protesters today
Eighth round of talks between Centre and farmer protesters today
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he eighth round of talks between the government representatives and the farmer leaders will be held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi at 2 pm today. Both sides are looking for a resolution over the issue of three agricultural laws that started protests all over the country and led to over one-month-long deadlock. The farmers have maintained their stand from the beginning on the repeal of all three contentious agricultural laws and want the government to make a law for minimum support price while the Centre clarified earlier that it was ready to consider any proposal except the repeal of the laws.
The farmers have announced to take out a tractor rally on the Republic Day if their demands are not met. On Thursday, they did a rehearsal of the tractor rally along the Delhi borders that is to be held on January 26. "We will discuss these three laws point-by-point and we are ready to make amendments as necessary after considering the points on which you have objections," Narendra Tomar, Agriculture Minister, had said in a statement.
The tractor rallies were taken out from protest sites near the Singhu, Tikri and the Ghazipur borders and also from Haryana's Rewasan on Thursday. The farmer unions asserted that they would not accept the government's proposal to amend the farm laws.
