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A group of farmers from Maharashtra on Saturday joined protesters at one of the borders of Delhi, an All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) leader said and added that they have expressed willingness to discuss issues with the government but wanted certain clauses from the three farm laws removed.
Thousands of farmers from Maharashtra had left for Delhi from Nashik earlier this week in vehicles to join the ongoing agitation seeking the repeal of the legislations.
“We received a rousing welcome at Shahjahanpur border. Farmers sitting on protests here welcomed us and thanked us for joining them,” secretary of Maharashtra unit of All India Kisan Sabha, Ajit Navle, said in a statement.
He said that farmers have expressed willingness to discuss their issues with the government, “but we want some clauses in the recenty-passed laws, which do not protect the interests of farmers, removed”.
Cultivators from 21 districts in Maharashtra had joined the “vehicle march” to Delhi led by AIKS leaders.
Enacted in September, the three farm laws have been projected by the Central government as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove the middlemen and allow farmers to sell anywhere in the country.
However, the protesting farmers have expressed apprehension that the new laws would pave the way for eliminating the safety cushion of Minimum Support Price and do away with the mandi system, leaving them at the mercy of big corporates.
The government has repeatedly asserted that the MSP and mandi systems will stay and has accused the opposition of misleading the farmers.
Multiple rounds of talks between the government and the protesting farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, have failed to break the ongoing impasse.
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