After call from Amit Shah, farmers form panel for talks with government
SKM leaders, after the meeting, said they will not move from the Singhu Border here until cases filed against farmers are withdrawn and demanded an assurance in writing.
By Kumar Anshuman, ET Bureau | Updated:
Farmers' protest: SKM forms 5-member committee on MSP law, says not going back until cases withdrawn
Union home minister Amit Shah called farmer leaders late on Friday to find ways of ending their ongoing agitation, as the government had repealed the three contentious farm laws.
"I received a call from the home minister, and he asked about the issues. I told him there are pending cases against farmers and the issue of compensation for those who died during the protest," Yudhveer Singh, general secretary of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), told ET.
Shah assured him that the government would drop the cases and would also consider the demand for compensation, Singh said.
The assurance came a day after the government - in a reply to a question in the Lok Sabha - said that there was no data on the farmers who had died during the protests and that the question of compensation did not arise.
On Saturday, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) formed a five-member committee to press the government on pending issues. They are expected to take a call on the agitation based on the government's response.
The members of the committee - Ashok Dhawale, Balbir Singh Rajewal, Gurnam Singh Chaduni, Shiv Kumar Kakkaji and Yudhveer Singh - will discuss with the government on ways to resolve their demands.
The committee will in turn also decide on state-level teams to work alongside some state governments.
"This is not the committee on MSP sought by the government. These are five people who will discuss with the government on how to resolve the pending issues to move towards ending the agitation," Chaduni, Haryana president of the BKU, told ET.
The committee will wait for the government to initiate the talks.
On Friday, Chaduni and other farmer leaders from Haryana had met chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
Sources told ET that the Haryana government is ready to withdraw cases against farmers. The talks were inconclusive as there was no consensus on the issue of compensation.
"We will not end this agitation without formal responses on each of the issues being raised by us," it said.
"I received a call from the home minister, and he asked about the issues. I told him there are pending cases against farmers and the issue of compensation for those who died during the protest," Yudhveer Singh, general secretary of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), told ET.
Shah assured him that the government would drop the cases and would also consider the demand for compensation, Singh said.
The assurance came a day after the government - in a reply to a question in the Lok Sabha - said that there was no data on the farmers who had died during the protests and that the question of compensation did not arise.
On Saturday, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) formed a five-member committee to press the government on pending issues. They are expected to take a call on the agitation based on the government's response.
The members of the committee - Ashok Dhawale, Balbir Singh Rajewal, Gurnam Singh Chaduni, Shiv Kumar Kakkaji and Yudhveer Singh - will discuss with the government on ways to resolve their demands.
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The committee will in turn also decide on state-level teams to work alongside some state governments.
"This is not the committee on MSP sought by the government. These are five people who will discuss with the government on how to resolve the pending issues to move towards ending the agitation," Chaduni, Haryana president of the BKU, told ET.
The committee will wait for the government to initiate the talks.
On Friday, Chaduni and other farmer leaders from Haryana had met chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
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Sources told ET that the Haryana government is ready to withdraw cases against farmers. The talks were inconclusive as there was no consensus on the issue of compensation.
"We will not end this agitation without formal responses on each of the issues being raised by us," it said.
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