3.55 pm: Sharad Pawar says it is unfortunate that those in power do not care about the farmers, The Indian Express reports. “[The] Centre refused oppositions demand to refer these laws to select committee,” he adds. “This was a way put to built consensus. But Modi government insisted it is passed as it was.
Pawar says: “The process to teach govt a lesson has begun through farmers. There cannot be a compromise on MSP [minimum support price].”
3.52 pm: Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar addresses protestors in Mumbai. “Braving cold weather, farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are agitating for the last 60 days,” he says, according to ANI. “Has the PM [prime minister] enquired about them? Do these farmers belong to…