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Farmers Call For 'All-India Bandh' Block all roads to Delhi
Farmers faced a brutal police crackdown in Haryana on Tuesday before being allowed to peacefully protest in Delhi against new farm laws.
Farmers who demonstrated on the outskirts of Delhi against Central's new farm laws on Tuesday demanded a nationwide shutdown, saying they would close all roads leading to the capital while standing alongside the government.
Farmers said they will also occupy all highway toll gates across the country and will not allow the government to collect tolls during the December 8 strike. "More and more people will join our movement," Harinder Singh Lakwal, leader of one of the protest groups, told a press conference.
Farmer groups have said in talks with the government that they have called for the repeal of the three laws, which they say will leave them at the mercy of big business and ignore anti-fraud measures.
Announcing the increase in their protests, the farmers, who faced a brutal police crackdown in Haryana last week before being allowed to demonstrate peacefully on the outskirts of Delhi, were invited to demonstrate on Saturday. Will
Democrat Kisan Sabha, President of Punjab, Satnam Singh Ajnala, “We see the government accepting our demands for minimum support prices, electricity and penalty to burn the chaff, but we will not back down before the laws. canceled. "
Earlier Thursday, a fourth round of talks between the government and some 40 coalitions of farmers failed to move forward, but a minister said he would continue talks on Saturday.
In the country's worst agricultural turmoil in years, tens of thousands of farmers on the outskirts of Delhi have protested against the law, which aims to rid the sector of outdated purchasing practices and allow farmers to purchase institutional buyers and large international retailers. Allow sellers to sell.
Farmers, who form a powerful political circle, fear that laws passed in September will prevent the government from buying grain at fixed prices and leave it at the mercy of private buyers.
Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said Thursday's talks, which lasted seven hours, were pleasant and sympathetic to the government.
"We have solved their problems and we will see each other on the 5th," Tomar told reporters.
He added that the government would maintain the price guarantee system, but that agricultural leaders had previously given written assurances.
"The government has proposed amendments to the laws, but the farmers' unions have always insisted on removing the laws," said Kevitha Gruganti, head of the All India Farmers Singer Coordination Committee, a group of farmers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has defended the new laws, saying they only allow farmers to sell to private buyers.
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