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Farmers’ meet with govt concludes, next round of talks on 3 Dec

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New Delhi: Meeting between the farmers’ leaders and the union government concluded on Tuesday, with another round of talks scheduled to be held on 3 December.

BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) President Joginder Singh Ugrahan said government’s meeting with protesting farmer unions remained inconclusive and that another meeting with farmer unions has been scheduled on 3 December.

“The meeting was good and we have decided that the talks will be held on 3 December. We wanted a small group to be constituted but farmers’ leaders wanted that the talks should be held with everyone, we do not have problem with it,” said Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.

“We appeal to the farmers to suspend the protests and come for the talks. However, this decision depends on farmers’ unions and farmers,” said Tomar.

“Our movement against farm laws will continue and we’ll definitely take back something from the government, be it bullets or a peaceful solution. We’ll come back for more discussions with them,” said Chanda Singh, Member of farmers’ delegation who met Tomar in Delhi today.

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