Government ready to stop implementation of agricultural laws for one and a half year

Last updated Jan 25, 2021

New Delhi : The Union Government has taken a step further to break the deadlock with farmers protesting in Delhi for nearly two months against agricultural laws. The government has proposed to the farmers’ organizations that they will stop the implementation of agriculture reform laws for a year and a half and in the meantime a joint special committee will discuss every demand.

This was a huge proposal and had immediate impact on the farmers’ organizations. Farmers’ organizations, who have been adamant on the demand for cancellation of the law and also rejected the ban by the Supreme Court, have decided to consider the government’s proposal. Their decision will come on Thursday.

It is believed that some farmers are trying to create more pressure, but most organizations have decided to stop the movement. On Friday, it was decided to hold another dialogue of farmers’ organizations with the government at Vigyan Bhawan. The deadlock seems to be breaking in the 10th round of talks between the farmers’ organizations and the government on Wednesday.

After repeated tea-breaks in the meeting which lasted for about four hours, it was believed that some decision would come out. Regarding the proposal put forward by the government in the talks and the attitude of the farmers associations, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar said, “The government is ready to postpone the implementation of the three new laws for a year and a half.” During this, some solution will be found in the talks between the farmers’ organizations and representatives of the government.

However, in several rounds of Wednesday’s talks, there were also a lot of heated arguments. But in the talks, the government was finding a solution. Tomar said that the government is ready to address every doubt of the agitating farmers’ leaders. Agriculture Minister Tomar told the farmer representatives that time is needed to consider various aspects of agriculture reform laws and movement. The government is willing to postpone the implementation of the law for a year and a half for this. Negotiations will be done to find a suitable solution.

Another round of talks with farmers to be held tomorrow at Vigyan Bhawan
Farmer representatives took this statement of Tomar seriously during the talks. On the attitude of farmers, the Agriculture Minister said that the talks have moved towards meaningfulness. Farmers’ organizations will again hold talks with the government on January 22 to withdraw the movement. Farmer unions of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh have been agitating on the frontier of Delhi for nearly two months on agricultural reforms.