Three union ministers who have been major the government’s consultations with the agitating farmers — Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Som Parkash — have been aspect of the meeting.
Farmer leader Darshan Pal of AIKSCC, who attended the meeting with Shah, stated, “The central government will send us a note on our demands tomorrow…. There won’t be any meeting between the Union government and farmer leaders tomorrow.” However, a couple of leaders who attended the meeting with Shah appeared to be in favour of needed amendments and assurances on the minimum help cost (MSP) regime and the mandi program rather than a comprehensive repeal of the laws enacted in September, indicating some sort of divisions amongst the unions.
After the meeting which ended about midnight, All India Kisan Sabha common secretary and CPI(M) leader Hannan Mollah stated, “The home minister has made it clear that the government will not repeal the laws. Shah-ji said the government will give tomorrow in writing the amendments which the government is keen to. We will decide about attending the meeting after discussing the written amendments with all 40 farmer unions.” At the exact same time, he also added, “We don’t want amendments, we want repeal of laws. There is no middle path. We will not attend tomorrow’s meeting.” Mollah stated a final selection on attending the sixth round of talks will be taken at a meeting of union leaders Wednesday noon at Singhu border, exactly where thousands of farmers have been camping for the final 12 days demanding the repeal of the laws.
However, there was no official words from the government on the status of Wednesday’s scheduled meeting. After the fifth round of talks on Saturday, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar had stated that the subsequent meeting had been scheduled for 11 am on December 9.
Shah’s meeting with the 13 farmer leaders started soon after 8 pm and ended about midnight. Some farmer leaders stated they initially anticipated the meeting would take spot at Shah’s residence right here, but the venue was shifted to National Agricultural Science Complex, Pusa.
The meeting appeared to have designed a discord amongst the organisations spearheading the protests on Delhi’s borders with the head of the BKU (Ugrahan), which is 1 of the biggest outfits in the bloc, questioning the rationale of the talks a day just before the scheduled official consultations.
In a social media post, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, who was not invited to the meeting with Shah, stated there was no require for the talks just before official consultations and hoped that the leaders attending today’s meet would maintain in thoughts the view of the bigger group.
Farmer leaders have been firm on their demand for repeal of 3 new farm laws enacted in September. “We will demand just a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ from Home Minister Amit Shah,” farmer leader Rudru Singh Mansa told reporters earlier in the day at the Singhu border.
Farmer leaders have claimed that the laws will advantage corporates and finish the mandi program and the minimum help cost (MSP) regime. The government has maintained that it is committed to the welfare of farmers and have presented these laws as key reforms for their positive aspects.