{"id":330089,"date":"2021-01-07T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330089"},"modified":"2021-01-07T07:21:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:21:13","slug":"farmers-hold-tractor-rally-at-several-delhi-border-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/farmers-hold-tractor-rally-at-several-delhi-border-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers\u2019 hold tractor rally at several Delhi border points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/farmers-hold-tractor-rally-at-several-delhi-border-points\/tra-tor-rally\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-330096\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330096 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tra-tor-rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/tra-tor-rally.jpg 704w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/tra-tor-rally-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/tra-tor-rally-696x363.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a>Farmers protesting against Centre&#8217;s three farm laws on Thursday took out a tractor march from Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The tractor march comes a day ahead of the next round of talks between protesting farmers and the government. Both parties have held several rounds of talks but failed to arrive at a consensus. Farmers have said they will intensify their protest if demands are not met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian farmers mainly from Punjab and Haryana have been protesting since November 26 against the Centre\u2019s three farm laws which was recently passed in parliament. Farmer unions described the acts as \u2018anti-farmer laws\u2019, whereas the government maintained that these acts will ease the process of farmers selling their produce directly to big buyers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The MSP assurance has emerged as the main reason in the farmers\u2019 protest. Farmers believed that the new laws would make the MSP system irrelevant and they would not have any assured income from their farming. However, the Central government, at many occasions reiterated that the MSP system will continue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The seventh round of talks between protesting farmer leaders and the government was held at Vigyan Bhawan on Monday. However, the meeting remained inconclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The government remained firm on not repealing the contentious laws and wanted to discuss it pointwise, whereas protesting farmer leaders also stuck to their demand for the rollback of the laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers protesting against Centre&#8217;s three farm laws on Thursday took out a tractor march from Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders. The tractor march comes a day ahead of the next round of talks between protesting farmers and the government. Both parties have held several rounds of talks but failed to arrive at a consensus. 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