Farmers Movement Archive

‘Govt using talks to tire out, divide farmers’

Bathinda: Farm organisation BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) has accused the NDA-led Centre of holding meetings with farm groups without concrete proposals with the motive of tiring out protesters and dividing them. BKU Ugrahan president Joginder Singh Ugrahan on Wednesday said the government wanted in “delusion”, as these tactics were not going to work and it should read the writing on the wall and concede to farm demands. Ugrahan said scores of people were joining the protest from Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha. “People from other sections of society are also extending support and the solidarity meetings are being organised all over the world, but the NDA government is not giving heed to the aspirations of farmers,” he said. Ugrahan said the three Union ministers’ proposal to form a subcommittee to study the laws was a delaying tactic which was rejected by farmer organisations unanimously. “The rejection of this proposal had a positive impact on the struggling masses and they are determined to take the fight to a decisive end,” he said. Ugrahan asserted that the same exercise of stressing on these laws was not going to serve any purpose and the government should repeal these. Farm organisation general secretary Shingara Singh Mann said a meeting of 14 villages from Sangria area in Rajasthan was conducted on Wednesday. The villagers have decided to join the protest in Delhi at the earliest.

The Times of India

2020-12-03

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