Farmers should accept the centre’s offer of dialogue today
Protestesting farmers have been amassed at Delhi’s borders since Friday, disrupting supplies and services, inconveniencing commuters and workers whose livelihoods depend on seamless travel within NCR. They are demanding that the Centre withdraw the new farm laws and also provide a legal guarantee for procurement of farm produce at minimum support price. The Centre initially made an offer of talks conditional on the farmers moving to a designated protest site, at Burari.The farmers’ leaders rejected that offer, saying they had ration enough to ‘gherao’ Delhi for months rather than go to some ‘open jail’. While kicking the dialogue down the road certainly raises the costs of the farmers’ protests for everybody, it does not take their cause forward.
So it is good that after another high-level huddle, the Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar has invited them for talks today, without any conditions. Union home minister Amit Shah has also called the farmers’ leaders with this offer. Dialogue is the need of the hour. Farmers’ leaders should accept the Centre’s offer of dialogue today.
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