By Nigam Prusty and Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI, Jan 22 (Reuters)
By Nigam Prusty and Manoj Kumar
NEW DELHI, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Indian farmers on Friday rejected a proposal by the federal government to defer three farm reform legal guidelines for one-and-half years, warning they’d step up protests as they search a repeal of the legal guidelines and a assure on minimal crop costs.
Farm leaders stated lots of of hundreds of farmers from neighbouring states together with Haryana, Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh would drive tractors by way of New Delhi on January 26, the Republic Day nationwide vacation when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be part of a parade of navy forces.
Though some former authorities officers have expressed concern that the protests may flip violent, the leaders stated they’d stay peaceable and urged the police to grant permission for the convoy to enter the capital.
The 11th spherical of talks between authorities officers led by Agricultural minister Narendra Singh Tomar and forty farm leaders earlier on Friday was inconclusive. Farmers caught to their calls for whereas the federal government urged them to think about its supply to carry discussions to deal with their considerations after deferring the legal guidelines.
“There’s a kind of impasse as the federal government repeated the supply of deferring the legal guidelines, which isn’t acceptable,” Darshan Pal, one of many farm leaders informed reporters after the assembly.
Modi’s authorities has stated that the legal guidelines launched in September will unshackle farmers from the duty of promoting produce solely at regulated wholesale markets. However the farmers say the payments are designed to profit personal patrons.
Tomar stated the federal government was dedicated to the reforms.
“If (farm leaders) agree with our proposal, we will meet tomorrow,” he stated.
A whole bunch of hundreds of farmers have been tenting on the outskirts of nationwide capital for practically two months, blocking a number of the roads connecting New Delhi with neighbouring states.
Supporting the farmers, the principle opposition Congress get together stated on Friday that the federal government had proven “surprising insensitivity and conceitedness” in the direction of farmers and urged it to just accept their calls for.
(Further reporting by Mayank Bhardwaj; Enhancing by Kirsten Donovan)
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