Farmers protest likely to be called off today

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• Dec 8, 2021 | moderator

New Delhi: After a more than a year-long protests against the government’s controversial farm laws that have now been repealed, the farmer unions are mulling plans to withdraw their protests and a final decision in this regard might be taken today.

The central government has sent a written draft regarding issues raised by protesting farmers to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s  (SKM)five-member committee, sources told India Today. The farmers’ union had called a meeting of its top leaders at the Singhu border on Tuesday to deliberate on the Centre’s draft proposal.

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As per sources, a major section of the SKM is in favour of calling off the agitation.

A final decision on the government’s draft proposal, however, will be taken today, the source said.

On December 4, SKM, the umbrella body of farmers' unions leading the protest, selected five people to be part of a committee empowered to hold talks with the government on behalf of all the protesting farmers.

This committee was formed to conduct discussions with the Centre on farmers' issues that still need to be addressed after the major demand to repeal the three contentious farm laws was accepted by the Union government.