The government will talk to farmers again today, Sukhbir Singh said, 40 farmers were among who had died, are from the Akali Dal

The movement of farmers against the new agricultural laws of the central government has been going on for more than a month. The eighth round of talks between the government and the protesting farmers’ organization is scheduled for Friday. Before that, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday claimed that 40 of the 54 farmers killed during protests in Delhi were from party cadres.

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In a conversation with The Indian Express, Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal said that his party workers are actively participating in this movement. In this movement we are protesting not as an Akali Dal worker but as a farmer. He said that 65 election incharge of the party are in Delhi. Sukhbir Singh said, “Our youth Akali Dal workers have built a tent city on the borders. Many of them are party officials at the block and village level.

On Sukhbir Singh Badal’s statement, BKU (Ugrahan) general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokarikalan said, “It is also a big news for me that 40 farmers who killed were from Shiromani Akali Dal. Some farmers may be voters of a particular party but you cannot call voters cadres. ”

Kokarikalan said that all the farmer unions are trying to distance themselves from any political party. Kokarikalan said that political parties are here in compulsion to save their vote bank. He said, “If the political parties are concerned about the farmers, then why don’t they organize a separate dharna on any border of Delhi and see how much support they get.”

A day before their eighth round of talks, the government and the protesting peasant organizations stuck to their stand. The protesting farmers held tractor rallies demanding their withdrawal of the three new agricultural laws, while the Center insisted that it was ready to consider every proposal except to withdraw these laws.

Both sides are trying to overcome the deadlock. Meanwhile, there are also rumors that some states are being allowed to move out of the purview of the Central Agricultural Laws, but the farmers’ organizations said that they have not received any such proposal from the government. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has denied any such proposal.

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Tomar, Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Prakash are representing the talks on behalf of the government with 40 protesting farmers’ organization leaders. The eighth round of talks will be held at Vigyan Bhawan at 2 pm on Friday. The meeting is important after the earlier meeting on January 4 was inconclusive. In the sixth round of talks on December 30, the government had accepted two demands for power subsidy and stubble burning of farmers. There was no success in any earlier talks.