In view of surge in Covid-19 cases across the country, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij has written to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, urging him to resume talks with farmers protesting against the Centre’s farm laws.
Maintaining that a surge in Covid-19 cases is being seen across the country and the situation is turning bad in Haryana too, Vij said he is worried about the farmers protesting on the state borders with Delhi.
Vij, who is also Health Minister of the state, said that all possible efforts are being made to bring the situation under control in Haryana but my worry pertains to thousands of agitating farmers who are sitting on the borders of Haryana. I have to save them from COVID-19, he said
In his letter, the Minister also said that there is also a worry that because of them the disease may not spread in the rest of the state.
He also mentioned that being in agitation mode, the farmers are not able to follow all COVID-related guidelines.
Vij further said that a situation of uncertainty prevails as there have been no talks for a long time between the government and the agitating farmers. I am of the belief that a problem can be solved through dialogue.
Therefore, I request you that the talks should be resumed so that the issue is resolved and the protest ends, he said. The Centre has made a lot of efforts to resolve the problems of farmers and held multiple rounds of talks with them but due to some reasons, the solution is yet to come, he added, in his letter written in Hindi.
He further mentioned that going by the infection numbers, it seems the fight against the pandemic will go on for a long time and for this, cooperation of all sections of society is necessary.
Notably, Haryana has recorded a spike in COVID cases in the past several days, prompting the government to shut schools for students of classes up to 8 till April 30.
Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at three border points of Delhi -- Singhu, Tikri (along Haryana), and Ghazipur -- demanding a repeal of the three farm laws enacted by the Centre in September last year.
