A workforce of Union ministers on Monday night held talks right here with farmer leaders in a bid to dissuade them from their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, and the Centre is learnt to have agreed to withdraw the circumstances towards the farmers registered in the course of the 2020-21 agitation.

However, sources stated farmer leaders have been adamant on a authorized assure to minimal help value for crops, which is certainly one of their key calls for. The ministers — Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal and Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda — held the second spherical of talks with the farmer leaders on the Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration in Sector 26.

Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) chief Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee basic secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher, amongst others, have been a part of the assembly, which started at round 6:30 pm. The assembly continued until late night time.

During the assembly, the delegation of the Centre is learnt to have agreed to withdraw the circumstances towards the farmers registered in the course of the 2020-21 agitation towards the now-repealed farm legal guidelines, stated sources. The Union ministers are additionally believed to have agreed to give compensation to any disregarded households of farmers who died in the course of the earlier agitation.

The sources additional stated the Central ministers have been additionally discussing varied different calls for of the farmers in the course of the assembly. One of the farmer leaders, who participated within the assembly, instructed reporters that their fundamental calls for included authorized assure to the MSP and debt waiver.

Punjab Cabinet Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, who additionally attended the assembly, stated the state authorities stands with the farmers. Besides a authorized assure for minimal help value (MSP), the farmers are additionally demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s suggestions, pensions for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, withdrawal of police circumstances and “justice” for victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstate the Land Acquisition Act 2013, withdraw from the World Trade Organisation, compensation for households of farmers died in the course of the earlier agitation, amongst others.

The SKM (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have introduced that farmers would head to Delhi on Tuesday to press the Centre to settle for their calls for. Besides farmer leaders, Punjab authorities’s senior officers together with Chief Secretary Anurag Verma and Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav have been additionally current within the assembly.

Earlier, the farmer leaders, who have been taking part within the talks in Chandigarh, held a gathering in Amb Sahib in Punjab’s Mohali earlier than leaving for the town. The first assembly with the Union ministers was held on February eight wherein detailed discussions with the leaders of farmer organisations befell.

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