Even as protesting farmers from Punjab continue to camp near different locations on the boundary with Haryana, farmer representatives and Union Ministers will hold another set of talks on February 15 (Thursday). The farmers asserted that the meeting would be fruitful only if the government came out with something ‘positive’ to offer.
In Punjab’s Rajpura, farmer leaders said they had been invited by the Centre for deliberations on their demands on February 15 in Chandigarh. The meeting would be held with Union Ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal and Nityanand Rai.
“We are camping peacefully at inter-State boundaries with Haryana. We conveyed to the Centre that we are not averse to the meeting, although we expect that the government should first create a positive atmosphere. On the one hand the government in Haryana is resorting to the use of tear gas and water cannons and on the other they are speaking about talks. They have assured us that the situation would be normalised,” Jagjit Singh Dallewal, a senior SKM(NP) leader, told The Hindu.
