Centre-Farmers to hold sixth round of talks today
The Union government is going to hold the sixth round of talks with the farmers today. The government is going to make a fresh attempt to appease the protesting farmers who have encircled the Capital and want three recent pro-reform agricultural laws scrapped. The government has agreed to discuss the agenda listed by farmers, which includes a legal guarantee for MSP and the repealing of the newly-enacted farm laws.
Agriculture secretary Sanjay Agrawal had sent out a letter to farm leaders on Monday, responding to an email by the farm unions on December 26 in which they had agreed to restart negotiations after rejecting the government’s appeal to resume the dialogue process several times.
The agriculture ministry’s invite said that the talks would be led by three Union ministers - Narendra Singh Tomar, Piyush Goyal and Som Parkash.
The Minister of state for commerce & industry Som Prakash said ‘We hope that the talks will be decisive. Talks will be held on all issues including MSP with an open heart. I hope that farmers' agitation ends today.’