1. The farmers’ assembly with Union ministers in Chandigarh — a last-ditch effort of the federal government that obtained singed two years in the past over farm legislation protests — continued nearly until midnight. Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal and Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda led the talks with the farmer leaders.

2. Post 11 pm, the 2 sides got here to an settlement on repealing the Electricity Act 2020, compensation to farmers killed in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, and the withdrawal of circumstances in opposition to farmers throughout the farmers’ motion.

3. But there was no consensus on the three key calls for — enactment of a legislation to ensure a Minimum Support Price for all crops, farmer mortgage waiver and the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission suggestions.

4. After the assembly ended simply earlier than midnight, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee’s Sarwan Singh Pandher stated the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march is on. “Two years ago, the government had promised to meet half of our demands in writing… We wanted to resolve the issue peacefully. But the government is not sincere. They just want to waste time,” a farmers’ consultant informed reporters.

5. The Delhi Police have taken each doable step to cease the march from getting into Delhi. There is heavy police presence on the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders. The police have imposed a month-long ban on public conferences and tractors and trolleys getting into the town.

6. Prohibitory orders banning giant gatherings have been declared in these areas. Much of the roads have been barricaded with concrete blocks and barbed wire. The motion of business automobiles has been stopped.

7. The authorities in Haryana have additionally fortified the state borders with Punjab at many locations, together with Ambala, Jind, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra and Sirsa. Concrete blocks, iron nails and barbed wire have been used to barricade the roads and block the protesters from getting into the state.

8. Haryana has additionally invoked the 2021 legislation in opposition to private and non-private property harm that makes perpetrators pay. The state dwelling division has directed the civil and law enforcement officials to stay to the rule.

9. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha had introduced ‘Delhi Chalo’ march. The farmers have taken a tough line, armed with the precedent of the federal government’s capitulation and withdrawal of the farm legal guidelines following the year-long agitation in 2020-21.

10. The Kisan Mazdoor Morcha which has the allegiance of greater than 250 farmers’ unions, and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha — a platform of one other 150 unions — known as the protest in December. The protest, coordinated from Punjab, is supposed to remind the federal government of the guarantees it made two years in the past.

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