Modi govt team to meet protesting farmers at Chandigarh
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ March 18,2025
A fresh round of talks between protesting farmers under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Centre will be held on Wednesday evening at Chandigarh centred around the legal guarantee of minimum support price on crops, among other demands.
A letter for the meeting was sent to farmer leaders Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Sarwan Singh Pandher by Purna Chandra Kishan, joint secretary, Union ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare.
Union Minister Shivraj Chouhan likely to attend the meeting from the centre government side. The government has invited farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher and jagjeet Singh Dallewal for the next round of meeting to be held on March 19,2025 at 11:00 am at Chandigarh. A delegation of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha will take part in the meeting .
Farmers earlier sought for the next meeting to be held in Delhi, however, the Centre scheduled it in Chandigarh’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Public Administration.
