The protest by farmers against the three new farm laws at different points of the Delhi border entered Day 20 on Tuesday. On Monday, farmer leaders sat on a day-long hunger strike in a bid to intensify their protest against the agriculture laws that were passed in September.
Meanwhile, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the Centre will soon hold a meeting with farmers to end the deadlock. As of now, the Centre and the farmer leaders have held five rounds of talks, all of them remained inconclusive. The sixth round of talks was cancelled after farmer leaders rejected the government’s proposed draft to amend certain provisions in the laws.
Protesting farmers are demanding the complete withdrawal of farm laws, saying that they would pave the way for eliminating the safety cushion of MSP and do away with the mandis.