No alternative to MSP and repealing farm laws: Farmers

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ There is no alternative to farmers’ demands of legal guarantee for minimum support price and repealing the new agri laws, farmer leaders said on Thursday, a day after talks between the Centre and the protesting unions remained deadlocked over the two contentious issues.

However, the government and farmer unions after nearly five hours of the sixth round of negotiations on Wednesday reached some common ground to resolve protesting farmers’ concerns over rise in power tariff and penalties for stubble burning.

Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, are protesting at various borders of the national capital for more than a month against the laws and are demanding that these be repealed.

Senior farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni said that the Samyukt Kisan Morcha has called another meeting on Friday to discuss the next course of action. However, there is no question of withdrawing from the two issues which are legal guarantee for minimum support price and repealing of the farm laws, he said.