Centre invites farmer groups for fifth round of negotiations
Financial Express Mumbai|February 22, 2024
THE PROTESTING FARMERS' groups on Wednesday decided to halt their march into Delhi demanding legal guarantee for procurement of minimum support price (MSP) crops and farm loans waiver for two days.
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Centre invites farmer groups for fifth round of negotiations

Earlier in the day, Shubh Karan Singh, 23, a farmer from Bhatinda district in Punjab, was killed and few others were injured amid firing of tear gas shells by the police, as protesters resumed their 'Delhi Chalo' agitation.

"We will discuss the current situations over the next two days and decide the future course of actions on Friday," Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary, Punjab Kisan Mazdoor, said, following a meeting of the farmer groups spearheading the agitation.

Pandher also stated that the government must share the agenda for further meetings, even as agriculture minister Arjun Munda on Wednesday called for a fifth round of talks with the agitating farmers to discuss "all the outstanding issues, including the MSP, stubble burning and also pending cases against the protestors".

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