Ahead of Farmer’s ‘hunger strike’ declaration on 14 December at the Singhu border, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Sunday that the government’s doors are still open to farmers and ready to address their problems.
“Government’s door is always open to have conversation with farmers on their issues. The procedure is continuously moving forward. The government is keeping proper monitoring of the current situation and ongoing developments,” Javadekar said.
Javadekar’s initiative is also important at a time when farmers have announced their plans to extend their protests to the ‘pan-India’ scale, appealing to all sections of society, including girls and women, to join them as they have not been able to obtain any meaningful signal from the Central Government to bring back the three controversial farm laws enacted in September.
On Saturday, the farmers announced their ‘Pan-India’ protest and announced that they would hold a day of ‘hunger strike’ on December 14.
Thousands of farmers, who started their sit-in from Singhu border on Delhi-Chandigarh border on 26 November, have so far blocked four other Delhi borders—Tikri, Palwal, Ghazipur and Chilla bordering Delhi-Haryana and Delhi-Uttar Pradesh. The protest has hindered the supply chain of national capital.
Despite the five rounds of talks between the government and the farmers, there has been no breakthrough yet. Farmers are pressing for the repeal of three farm laws called black laws’ and ‘anti-farmers’ but the government is not able to roll back. As per government, changes to the regulations are ready, but they cannot be repealed, reiterating that they are for the good of farmers.
