NEW DELHI: Union agriculture ministry Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday ruled out repealing the 3 new farm legislation but said that the government is prepared to resume discussions with protesting farmer marriages on provisions of this legislations.
The unions and government have held 11 rounds of discussions, the final being on January 22, to break the deadlock and finish the farmers’ protest.
Talks haven’t resumed after widespread violence in a tractor rally from protesting farmers around January 26.
Thousands of farmers, largely from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, are residing at Delhi’s boundaries for at least six months from protest against the 3 laws they say will probably finish state procurement of plants at MSP.
Even the Supreme Court has placed on hold the execution of the 3 laws until farther orders and establish a committee to discover solutions.
“Government of India is prepared for discussions with farmers.
Except for instance, if some farmers’ union would like to talk about terms of this Act even at midnight, then Narendra Singh Tomar will welcome this,” the agriculture ministry stated in a video posted with his Twitter accounts.
Three marriage ministers, such as Tomar and Food Minister Piyush Goyal, have held 11 rounds of discussions with all the protesting farmer marriages.
In the previous interview on January 22the administration’s discussions with 41 farmer collections hit a roadblock because the unions promptly rejected the Centre’s suggestion of placing regulations .
Through the 10th round of discussions held January 20, the Centre had provided to suspend the legislation for 1-1.5 decades and make a joint committee to find alternatives, in return to aspiring farmers heading back to their various houses from Delhi’s boundaries.
The 3 laws — The Farmers’ Create Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Arrangement of Cost Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, along with The Critical Commodities (Amendment) Act 2020 — have been passed by the Parliament in September This past Year.
Farmer groups have alleged that these laws may finish the mandi and MSP procurement strategies and also depart the farmers at the forefront of large corporates, even as the government has resisted these apprehensions as lost.
On January 11the Supreme Court had stayed the execution of the 3 laws until farther orders and made a four-member board to solve the impasse.
Bhartiya Kisan Union President Bhupinder Singh Mann had recused himself from the committee.
Shetkari Sanghatana (Maharashtra) President Anil Ghanwat and agriculture economists Pramod Kumar Joshi and Ashok Gulati will be the additional members on the board.
They’ve finished the consultation process with stakeholders.