Amit Shah holds late night meetings as farmers threaten to Block Delhi
Hours after farmers protesting in and around Delhi border and rejecting the center’s proposal of holding early talks and moving their protest venue three union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Narendra Singh Tomar yesterday night set a meeting at BJP chief JP Nadda’s Delhi residence. The meeting reportedly went on for over two hours as the protesting farmers had threatened to block five entry points to Delhi. The Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar again met Home Minister Amit Shah this morning.
The roads to Delhi from five entry points of Sonipat, Rohtak, Jaipur, Ghaziabad-Hapur and Mathura have been threatened to be blocked by the angry protesting farmers. The commuters have been requested to take alternate routes as the key routes with the neighboring Haryana are staying closed according to the Delhi Police. The massive protest against the three farm laws by the farmers’ organizations made the Home Minister on Saturday say that the government was ready to deliberate on ‘every problem and demand’, and in case the farmers want to hold early discussions before the scheduled date of December 3 the protest will have to be shifted to the designated site.
On Sunday the farmers turned down the early talks proposal by the central government and said that they should have approached with ‘an open heart’ and not have preconditions. The farmers rejected the government’s proposal as they feared that according to the center’s suggestion the protest spot could become jails.
The protest has support of over 500 farmer organizations and the farmer union leaders claim that over 3 lakh farmers are participating in the ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest march. The farmers and the opposition say that the farm laws will deprive the farmers of assured minimum price by the government of their produce and leave them at the hands of corporate mercy.
On Sunday at the radio address by PM Narendra Modi he said, the reforms brought in by the center in the agricultural sector have opened ‘many more opportunities’ for the farmers and have met their impending demands.
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