In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar, farmers unions have cleared their stand that the protest is not related to any political party. On Sunday, the farmers protest entered Day 24.
The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) on Saturday wrote to PM Modi and Tomar and said the government’s assumption of protest being engineered by opposition parties is wrong.
The letters are in Hindi which has come a day after PM Modi had accused opposition parties of misleading farmers over the three farm laws. “The truth is that the farmers’ agitation has forced political parties to change their views and your (PM’s) claim that political parties fuelled it (protest) is wrong. Any demand of any protesting farmer union and group is not affiliated to a political party,” AIKSCC said in its letter to PM Modi. It is one of around 40 unions protesting at several border points of Delhi.
On Friday, while addressing farmers in Madhya Pradesh Modi backing the farm laws said that they are work of several decades and those opposing them have once supported them and are doing it to gain back their political ground. He said the opposition can keep the credit but do not mislead the farmers.
The farmer’s union, in its open letter to Tomar, claimed there are flaws in the three farm laws and said the agriculture minister was diverting the main issues of farmers from the discussion.
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Meanwhile, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar had a meeting with Tomar on Saturday and said a fresh round of talks may happen in the next two to three days. “A solution to this issue (farmers’ protest) should be found through discussion. I have said that this issue should be resolved soon,” Khattar said.
Sunday will be observed as ‘Shradhanjali Diwas’ by farmers and hold prayer meetings to pay homage to those who lost their lives in the ongoing protests against the three farm bills.