“On January 26, we will hold a massive rally in Delhi with tricolours on tractors. We give this call for countrywide protests at all the headquarters,” the farmer leaders said.
Just two days before the next round of talks with the government to resolve nearly a month-long deadlock, farmers protesting the contentious agricultural laws near Delhi’s borders have threatened to hold a tractor rally – “Kisaan Parade” – in the national capital on Republic Day.
“We are going to hold discussions on January 4 (Monday). The Supreme Court is going to hear the matter on January 5. If no conclusion is reached and if talks fail, we will hold a tractor march on Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway in Haryana on January 6. We will protest for 15 days. On January 23, Subhash Chandra Bose’s birthday, we will hold a protest outside the Governor’s House,” Dr Darshanpal, one fo the farmer leaders told at a press briefing this afternoon.
“On January 26, we will hold a massive rally in Delhi with tricolours on tractors. We give this call for countrywide protests at all the headquarters,” he said.
The government is misleading them over the minimum support price for their produce, the farmer leaders alleged.
“The government is misleading us… They’re saying the MSP won’t be abolished. But we’re demanding that a law should be created for it… it’s our right,” another farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chadhuni told.
The government offered to withdraw the Electricity Amendment Bill and the penal provisions for stubble burning in the Air Quality Commission Ordinance during the seventh round of talks between central ministers and farmers leaders earlier this week.
An agreement over MSP, however, could not be reached in the last meeting. Farmers have been insisting on a complete repeal of the laws, and the centre hasn’t agreed to it.
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