Farmer Unions today held a meeting at Singhu border to discuss their further strategy. The meeting comes two days after the Center and farmer unions had arrived at an agreement relating to rising in power tariff and penalties for stubble burning to resolve the protesting farmers' concerns. Though these two issues were agreed upon, the major deadlock over demands of repealing the three farm laws and a legal guarantee for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) remained as it is.
The farmers have maintained that their stance and they will not withdraw their protest unless the two issues are resolved.
Three union ministers and a 41-member representative group of thousands of farmers protesting on Delhi borders had a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the Centre’s farm laws and break the deadlock. The 6th round of talks between the government and the farmers was scheduled to happen on December 9 but it was called off after an informal meeting of Home Minister Amit Shah with some union leaders failed to reach any breakthrough.
With tight security, hundreds of police personnel have been deployed at Singhu border, Ghazipur, and Tikri border points, where the farmers have been camping for more than a month now. Whereas commuters have been cautioned to opt for alternate routes since the others remained closed owing to the agitation.
Delhi traffic police tweeted, "Tikri, Dhansa Borders are closed for any Traffic Movement. Jhatikara Borders is open only for LMV (Cars/ Light Motor Vehicles), two-wheelers and pedestrian movement.”
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"The Chilla and Ghazipur Borders are closed for traffic coming from Noida & Ghaziabad to Delhi because of farmer protests. Please take an alternate route for coming to Delhi via Anand Vihar, DND, Apsara, Bhopra & Loni Borders," it said.
On Thursday, a group of protesting farmers from Rajasthan broke through police barricades on the Haryana-Rajasthan border and a clash occurred between the police and the farmers. The police had to use fired teargas shells and water cannons to stop the farmers