A leader of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee said on Friday that the Centre’s proposal to suspend the three farm laws for 18 months was like “hiding poison inside sweets”, reported ANI.
“Government’s strategy was to throw [a] net at us, to hide poison inside sweets,” SS Pandher, a leader of the union, said. “They want to end protests somehow. In our meeting, it was unanimously decided that we reject their proposal.”
Pandher was referring to the Sankyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farm unions leading protests at several Delhi border points, which rejected the government’s proposal.
The Centre and the farm unions are holding the eleventh round of talks to resolve the deadlock over the agricultural laws. Pandher said that they will discuss the minimum support price and the repeal of the three laws in the meeting.
On Wednesday, the Narendra Modi government had agreed to suspend the implementation of the three contentious farm laws for one-and-a-half…