Govt Invites Farmers for Talks Today; PM Says They Are Being Misinformed

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Govt invites farmers for talks today; PM says they are being misinformed The Centre invited agitating farmer unions for talks on Dec 1, two days ahead of a scheduled meeting. At the same time, PM Modi said the protests are based on creating doubts through misinformation

The Centre on Monday night invited agitating farmer unions for talks on December 1, two days ahead of a scheduled meeting, as their stir against the new agri-marketing laws appeared to intensify despite a strong defence of the legislation by the government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi who accused the opposition of playing tricks on farmers again through misinformation. The development came a day after the protesting farmers rejected the Centre’s offer to start talks as soon as they move to Burari and

continued to stay put Singhu and Tikri borders of the national capital.

“Keeping in view the cold and COVID-19, we have invited leaders of farmer unions for discussion much before the scheduled December 3 meeting,” Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told PTI and urged the farmers to end their stir. Addressing a press conference on Monday, representatives of agitating farmers said on Monday they have come to Delhi for a “decisive” battle and asked Prime Minister Modi to listen to their “mann ki baat”.

Peaceful sit-ins by farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, continued for the fifth day at the Singhu and Tikri borders with no untoward incident reported after Friday’s violence, while the numbers of protestors swelled at the Ghazipur border. “Our demands are non-negotiable,” Jagmohan Singh, general secretary Bhartiya Kisan Union (Dakaunda), said addressing a press conference by representatives of farmers at Singhu border. “We have come here to fight a decisive battle. We have come to Delhi to ask the prime minister to listen to ‘mann ki baat’ of farmers, else the government and the ruling party will have to pay a heavy price…,” he said.