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Kisan Union Sher-e-Punjab president Gurinder Singh Bhangu. (Facebook)
A fortnight aft husbandman organisations staging dharna astatine the Shambhu and Khanauri borders refused to negociate with the Supreme Court-constituted committee, a delegation comprising leaders of respective workplace groups led by Kisan Union Sher-e-Punjab president Gurinder Singh Bhangu met the committee Monday with their demands, including they should beryllium allowed to determination Delhi with the support to protestation astatine Ram Leela Maidan oregon Jantar Mantar.
Sources privy to the gathering said arsenic galore arsenic 13 demands of husbandman organisations, including the opening of the borders minimum enactment price (MSP), pension for the farmer, shortage of DAP and non-lifting of paddy, were discussed with the committee led by president Justice Nawab Singh and comprising retired IPS serviceman PS Sandhu, agriculture adept Devinder Sharma, prof of eminence, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Ranjit Singh Ghuman and cultivation economist Dr Sukhpal Singh. Apart from them, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Vice-Chancellor Prof B R Kamboj is simply a peculiar invitee.
They said the gathering was besides attended by the Chief Secretaries of Punjab and Haryana KAP Sinha and Vivek Joshi, respectively. The Haryana authorities stated that “the authorities suffered immense losses owed to the workplace agitation successful 2019-2020, hence the borders were barricaded heavily, and the substance is pending successful the apex court”.
Sources said the workplace leaders demanded the committee to support them successful the loop erstwhile they taxable an interim study to the SC.
“As Justice Singh told the workplace leaders to wide the transition astatine the borders and helium would similar to sojourn them astatine the borders for talks, workplace leaders said helium should sojourn the borders connected his ain and find retired who was blocking the road. The leaders said the Haryana authorities was barricading the road, not farmers,” they said.
The breakthrough came aft husbandman leaders led by Jagjit Singh Dallewal accepted the invitation for the meeting, but Dallewal did not be it.
“At slightest the deadlock ended. We moved immoderate distance. We had a bully discussion. Farmer leaders were conveyed the mandate of the committee was agrarian reforms, and to person a level wherever farmers and experts could enactment together. For the archetypal time, the Dallewal radical came for the meeting. It was informed astatine the gathering that Dallewal was unwell, truthful helium could not travel for the meeting,” they added.
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