(Aditya Shaw, Intern Journalist):Today is the 39th day of the farmers’ agitation against agricultural laws. There will be an 8th round meeting with the farmers’ government on Monday. Before this conversation, the farmers warned the government that if the government did not accept their demands, then the agitation would intensify.
Farmer leader Manjit Singh Rai, who is demonstrating at the Singhu border, said that farmers will celebrate Lohri on January 13 by burning a copy of the new agricultural laws and on January 23 will also celebrate Farmers Day on the occasion of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s birthday.
According to the news agency, in the meeting on Monday, big issues of farmers can also be resolved. The government can give written confidence in the issues of support price (MSP) and Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC). With this, such arrangements can be made that private companies are not able to buy crops in mandis at a price lower than MSP.
Roadmap ready for meeting if the government fails
The farmers are staging a sit-in on the borders of Delhi ahead of the government meeting on Monday. However, in case the negotiations are not successful, a roadmap has also been prepared. The Farmers Coordination Committee has said that if the demands are not met, the farmers from across the fronts around Delhi will enter Delhi on January 26 and take out the Farmers Republic Parade with a tractor-trolley and other vehicles.
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Desh Jagriti Pakhwada will be celebrated from 6 to 20 January. On this day, farmers will march on KMP Expressway. Farmers who have put up a march on Shahjahanpur will also travel towards Delhi.
On January 13, Kisan Sankalp Diwas will be celebrated all over the country on Lohri.
Women’s Farmers Day will be celebrated on 18 January.
On January 23, Azad will celebrate Hind Kisan Day in the memory of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and camp outside the Rajbhavans in all capitals.
Roads are in winter-rain, it is expected that the government will accept the demands
In many areas of Delhi-NCR, it has been raining for two days and it is freezing. Meanwhile, the farmers sitting on the Ghazipur border said that despite bad weather, we are sitting here away from our families. It is expected that the government will accept our demands in Monday’s meeting.
Gehlot-pilots will picket in support of farmers
Meanwhile, the opposition parties are also busy surrounding the government on the issue of farmers. Several Congress leaders, including Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, State Congress President Govind Singh Dotasara and former Deputy CM Sachin Pilot, will perform in Jaipur today.
Bathinda’s young man dies of heart attack in Tikri
18-year-old Jashanpreet of village Chow of Bathinda died of a heart attack. They were involved in the ongoing dharna on the Tikari border. At the same time, UP farmer Kashmir Singh (75) died on the Ghazipur border by planting a noose. He wrote in the suicide note, ‘How long will we sit here in winter. The government is not listening, so I am giving my life. So that there is a solution.