Farmers who protested at the Singu border, the Tikri border and the Ghazipur border, said the 10th round of negotiations with farmer associations to resolve the new agricultural laws was postponed until January 20. They stay here and they don’t mind a day’s delay.
The postponement of the meeting will not make any difference as farmers will not leave the Delhi border until the three laws are repealed, said Rakesh Tikite, a spokesman for the Indian Kisan Union (BKU) standing at the Ghazipur border.
He said delaying the meeting does not matter. We are here until our demands are met and the law is repealed. We hope the matter will be resolved through dialogue.
Asked about a meeting of the Supreme Court Committee on Agricultural Laws to be held today, Tikite said the farmers had not gone to the Supreme Court and had nothing to do with it.
The way the law came about, the same is repealed
“We don’t know anything about the committee’s first meeting. We’re not going to a meeting,” Tikite said. No one has come to court because of the agitation. The government introduced these laws by eulogy and then introduced them in the House. These laws should be repealed the way they came.
At the same time, Tikkite supported his view that farmers protesting at the Singu border would not leave Delhi’s border until the laws were repealed.
Gurdial Singh, a farmer from Patiala district in Punjab, said he had been protesting at the Singh border for about two months and would return only after the law was implemented. “We don’t want the government to eat sweets (legal) prepared for us, then why are they forcing us to eat it,” he said. We only come back by repealing laws.
We need a clear decision, not a meeting
Another farmer, Parpur Singh, said the government should go ahead with the negotiations and determine the demand of the farmers. I would like to join hands and hold meetings and negotiations and request the government to make a clear decision on what we want. They should not delay the matter and we should make clear judgment and repeal the laws.
The Union Government has postponed the 10th round of talks with representatives of protesting farmers until January 20, the Agriculture Ministry said today. The meeting was previously scheduled for Tuesday and will now be held at the Science House on Wednesday at 2 pm.
Significantly, the ninth round of talks between the central government and the farmers’ unions on January 15 was also indefinite. Earlier, on January 12, the Supreme Court had asked the Center to set up a committee to ban the implementation of the three agrarian laws.
The Supreme Court has directed the committee to consult with farmers within two months from the date of the first meeting and submit recommendations relating to agricultural laws. But leaders of the peasant unions refused to appear before the committee, saying their members were already in favor of agrarian laws.
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