The government on Monday postponed the tenth round of talks on the new agriculture laws with farmer unions to January 20, PTI reported. The meeting was earlier scheduled to take place at 12 pm on Tuesday at Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan.
The previous nine rounds of talks between the government and farmers have failed to yield any concrete results, as the farmer unions have stuck to their main demand for repealing the new laws, while the government has refused to do so and insisted on a clause-wise discussion of the legislations.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court-appointed panel formed with the mandate to resolve the deadlock will hold its first meeting on Tuesday, according to PTI.
Earlier on Monday, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the stalemate on the matter continued because the farmer unions were not willing to discuss provisions in the legislations that they were opposed to.
“We are willing to discuss the issues concerning the three laws with an open mind,…