Farmer’s reject govt’s proposal, call for nationwide protests on Monday
New Delhi, Dec 9: The farmers rejected the government’s proposals for changes in laws, even as the Centre in a written proposal assured the minimum support price for crops. The farmers’ groups received the proposal with amendments that the government intends to carry out.
The farmers also said they will block the Delhi-Jaipur highway on December 12.
This comes a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s talks with farmers ended in failure as farmer leaders rejected the government’s offer to amend new farm laws, saying they would settle for nothing less than the scrapping of the statutes.
The big meeting scheduled for today with Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar – the sixth since the protests started – was called off.
Amit Shah’s efforts, a day before the scheduled sixth round of talks between the government and farmer unions, were aimed at ending the protests on Delhi’s borders that have been going on for 12 days.
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