Union Minister of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala on Wednesday said the Government is in favour of continuing talks with protesting farmer groups as it believes a solution can be found only through dialogue. He was responding to a query whether the Government talks with protesting farmers’ leaders on January 15 will be held as scheduled in the wake of the Supreme Court setting up of a committee to resolve the crisis.
While eight rounds of negotiations so far between the Government and a representative-group of thousands of farmers protesting against three farm laws have failed to resolve the crisis, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the implementation of the three Acts till further orders and set up a four-member committee to end the impasse.
On Tuesday, Kailash Choudhary, who is also Minister of State for Agriculture, had said the Government was willing to go ahead with the meeting and it was for the farmer groups to decide what they want.
In another development, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday to discuss the protests in the State over the legislations. The meeting comes a day after Dushyant and Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar held talks with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, after which they reiterated there was no threat to the State’s coalition Government.
