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Meeting between protesting farmers, central team in Chandigarh
NEW DELHI [Maha Media]: A fresh round of talks between protesting farmers and the Centre will be held here on Saturday evening centred around the legal guarantee of minimum support price on crops, among other demands.
The meeting between the central team and farmer leaders will take place at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Public Administration in Chandigarh at 6 pm.
In the last meeting held on February 14, Union minister Pralhad Joshi had said that Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan would lead the central team for the February 22 meeting with the protesting farmers.
Before the meeting held on February 14, four rounds of talks were held between Union Ministers and the farmers in February 2024. But, these meetings remained inconclusive.
On February 14, a central team led by Union Minister Pralhad Joshi met with farmers’ representatives in Chandigarh, with both sides saying that the talks were held in a cordial atmosphere.
Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal had described it as a “positive meeting”.
He also informed that Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and two other Ministers would also be present at the next meeting on February 22.
However, Dallewal, who has been fasting unto death, made it clear to the authorities that the farmers will continue their protest until there is a law made for MSP.
Key farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher told reporters that at the February 14 meeting, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said that the Narendra Modi-led government has increased MSP by 58 per cent since 2014.
“However, we told them that the inflation under their government has increased by 59 per cent… We told them that the government should make a law for MSP. He (Joshi) told us that the government wants to keep holding talks with us,” Pandher added.
The meeting last week had come after a year-long protest by farmers, centred around their MSP demand, wherein many chaotic events took place at the Shambhu, Khanauri and other Delhi-connected border points.
