Live
- DEO suspends teacher accused of sexual assault
- PM ‘cursing’ Congress out of despair: Maharashtra Cong Chief
- Applications are invited for Junior Colleges Scheme District Scheduled Castes Development Officer Ramlal
- A nomination was filed on the second day for the Nagar Kurnool parliamentary seat
- SP Gaikwad inspected the Telangana Amarnath Saleswaram Jatara yatra arrangements
- Rahul Gandhi's decision to contest from Wayanad shows 'lack of confidence': BJP President Nadda
- IPL 2024: Delhi bowlers will go after all of SRH’s top-order batters, says head coach Ricky Ponting
- At Amroha rally, PM Modi sends out ‘meaningful’ message for Muslims and Hindus
- Tripura records highest 79.83 pc voter turnout in Northeast
- The government has to clear the confusion
Our ghar wapsi after your law wapsi
Farmers' leaders during the eighth round of talks with the Centre over the three contentious agri laws, at New Delhi's Vigyan Bhawan, on Friday
- Assert farmers, ask Centre not to meddle in agriculture
- Cannot repeal laws, says govt; sets Jan 15 for 9th round of talks
New Delhi: Protesting farmers on Friday stuck to their key demands of repealing the farm laws as the only way to end protests.
During the eighth round of talks between the farmers' representatives and the three Central ministers, the farmers said their "ghar wapsi" will happen only after "law wapsi" but the Centre insisted talks must be limited to contentious clauses and ruled out a complete withdrawal of the Acts.
At the eighth round of negotiations with the 41-member representative group of protesting farmers, the government said the farm reform laws have been welcomed by a large section of farmers in various states and asked the unions to think about the interests of the entire country.
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Railways, Commerce and Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash, who is an MP from Punjab, are holding talks with unions at Vigyan Bhawan in the heart of the national capital, while thousands of farmers have stayed put at various Delhi borders to protest against the three laws they find pro-corporate and against the existing mandi and MSP procurement systems.
"Discussion on the laws was taken up but no decision could be made. The government urged that if farmer unions give an option other than repealing, we'll consider it. But no option could be presented, so the meeting was concluded, and it was decided to hold the next meeting on January 15," Tomar said later at a press meet.
