Govt, farmer leaders to hold fourth round of talks today
   Date :03-Dec-2020
NEW DELHI :
 
Shah holds meeting with Tomar, Goyal, discusses future course of action to resolve the issue
 
 
UNION Home Minister Amit Shah is holding another round of meeting since Wednesday morning with his Cabinet colleagues Narendra Singh Tomar and Piyush Goyal to discuss the future course of action to resolve farmers’ demands. At the meeting, which began around 11.30 am, the Home Minister was apprised by Tomar and Goyal about Tuesday’s parleys they had with the leaders of farmers at the Vigyan Bhawan. The Government strategy for the fourth round of talks with farmer leaders of over 30 unions on Thursday will also be devised at the meeting.
 
Shah, who had decided to stay away from Tuesday meeting at the last moment along with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, is learnt to have taken stock of farmers’ point of view and demands during Tuesday’s meeting with Agriculture Minister Tomar as well as Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Goyal. Sources said that Shah and his ministerial colleagues will discuss the Government’s response as the farmers have rejected the offer to form a committee to study and analyse the three contentious central farm bills and other issues raised by the farmer leaders in the meeting. Amarinder to meet Shah today: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will meet Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence on Thursday, ahead of the crucial fourth round of talks between the Centre and farmer leaders over their agitation. Sources said that Singh will hold deliberations with Shah on Thursday morning in an effort to work out an amicable solution to the deadlock. The farmers are demanding that the Government withdraw the new farm laws if it wants them to end their stir.
 

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Farmers sit during ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest march against new farm law at Ghazipur Delhi-UP on Wednesday. (PTI)
 
 
Day 7 of farmers’ agitation, more protesters try to enter Delhi
 
NEW DELHI,
 
Dec 2 (PTI)
 
THE number of protesting farmers swelled at Delhi border points on Wednesday as police stepped up security after thousands blocked key gateways into the national capital for the seventh day on the trot, leaving commuters to face a harrowing time. The protest at the Delhi-UP border in Ghazipur intensified leading to the closure of a key route connecting the national capital with Uttar Pradesh. “The Chilla border on Noida link road is closed for traffic due to farmers’ protests near Gautam Budh Dwar. People are advised to avoid Noida link road for going to Noida and use NH 24 and DND instead,” the traffic police tweeted.
 
At the Chilla Border which connects Delhi with Noida, more farmers from Firozabad, Meerut, Noida and Etawah started gathering, prompting the authorities to close the key road stretch for the second consecutive day. The protesters at the Delhi-Noida border belong to various districts of western Uttar Pradesh and want to reach the national capital to join the bigger stir launched by the farmers of Punjab and Haryana against the Centre’s new agriculture reform laws. The Delhi border points remained under heavy police deployment as the farmers continued their agitation against the new farm laws.