Updated: January 8, 2021 10:39:32 am
Farmers Protest 2020, Indian Farmers Protest Live Update: After the meeting ended without having any consensus on Jan 4, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar mentioned that the government wanted to hold point-by-point discussion on laws but union leaders stuck to their demand.
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The Centre and the farmer unions have stuck to their respective positions — the agitating farmers yesterday took out tractor rallies to press their demand for rollback of new farm laws and the government asserted it is prepared to contemplate any proposal other than their repeal. As each sides looked for a resolution to the more than one particular-month-lengthy deadlock, rumours about some states becoming permitted to opt out of the central laws began undertaking the rounds, but the agitating unions mentioned they had not received any such proposal from the government. However, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar answered in the unfavorable when he was asked by reporters if there was any proposal to give state governments the freedom to implement the new laws. Tomar, along with Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash, has been major the government’s negotiations with 40 protesting farmer union leaders. (PTI)