As the farmers protesting for amendment of farm bill, today they had blocked Delhi-Jaipur borders. Union Home Minister Amit Shah conducted discussions on agricultural issues with Punjab BJP leaders on Sunday in the presence of Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.
The meeting lasted for 40 minutes at Shah’s residence here the situation in Punjab and the measures to resolve the agitation that farmers are preparing to escalate in the coming days were also addressed. The Union Minister of State for Trade and Industry Som Parkash was also present.
Leaders also bolstered a new plan to deal with the upheaval that has disrupted the supply chains to the national capital due to the closing of five boundary points between Delhi and Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in separate directions.
The move comes after a coalition of 32 agricultural unions declared on Saturday that they would hold a day-long ‘hunger strike’ at the Singhu border on the Delhi-Ambala road on 14 December and spread the ongoing agitation throughout India in the absence of any positive signal from the centre.
Thousands of farmers are protesting on Delhi’s borders under the open skies to seek the withdrawal of The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. They call these laws ‘black law’, ‘draconian’ and ‘anti-farmer’.
The government is instead ready to undertake amendments to the laws, reiterating that they are for the benefit of farmers.
