Thousands of farmers, who are protesting against the new farm laws in and around the national capital for the sixth straight days, cleared that the government will have to call all 500 organisations, which have joined the massive agitation, in the talks scheduled to be held at 3 pm on Tuesday.
After the farmers refused to buy any condition from the central government, which is facing the biggest protests in years, Union Agricultural Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has offered to talk two days before the scheduled date Nov 3.However, the government is likely to convey to the protesters that the new farm laws will not be repealed, something completely opposite to the demands of the agitating farmers from agro-based states Punjab and Haryana.Meanwhile, the protests have forced Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the second most important person in the Narendra Modi government, to skip an important event.
One of the Centre’s new farm laws will now allow farmers to sell their produce to institutional buyers beyond the regulated wholesale market.However, farmers and opposition leaders criticised the Centre’s move stating small peasants will have little bargaining power while selling their produce to institutional buyers, running the risk of getting exploited.
