Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher on Saturday demanded that the Centre should bring an ordinanceꦏ on giving a legal guarantee to MSP, a ꦦkey demand of farmers currently camping at the Shambhu and the Khanauri points of the Punjab-Haryana border.
The demand comes a day before the fouℱrth round of talks between farm leaders and Union ministers over their various demands.
Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher on Saturday demanded that the Centre should bring an ordinanceꦏ on giving a legal guarantee to MSP, a ꦦkey demand of farmers currently camping at the Shambhu and the Khanauri points of the Punjab-Haryana border.
The demand comes a day b꧃efore the fourth round of talks between🍃 farm leaders and Union ministers over their various demands.
"If it (Centre) brings out an ordinance, it can bring it overnight, if it wants to. If the government wants a resolution of the farmers' protest, then it should bring an ordinance with immediate effect that it will enact a law on ♌MSP, then discussions can proceed further," Pandher told reporters at the Shambhu border. As far as the modalities are concerned, Pandher said any ordinance has a six-month validity.
On the issue of farm deb🃏t waiver, Pandher said the government is saying that the loan amount has to be assessed. The government can collec🦩t data from banks in this regard, he said adding, "It is a question of will power."
Union ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal and Nityanand Rai and farmer leaders will meet꧃ on Sunday for the fourth round of talks. The two sides met earlier on February 8, 12 and 15 but those talks remained inconclusive.
On the fifth day of their "Delhi Chalo" march -- called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha -- the farmers stayed p🌺ut at the two border points of Punjab and Haryana as they press the Centre to accept their demands, including a legal guarantee of a minimum support price (MSP) for crops.
Besides a legal guarantee for MSP, the farmers are demanding implementation of the Swamina🦋than Commission's recommendations, pension for farm🅰ers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, no hike in electricity tariff, withdrawal of police cases and "justice" for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act - 2013, and compensation to the families of the farmers who died during a previous agitation in 2020-21.