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

2. Submit 11 pm, the 2 sides got here to an settlement on repealing the Electrical energy Act 2020, compensation to farmers killed in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, and the withdrawal of circumstances towards farmers in the course of the farmers’ motion.

3. However there was no consensus on the three key calls for — enactment of a regulation to ensure a Minimal Assist Worth for all crops, farmer mortgage waiver and the implementation of the Swaminathan Fee 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 in the past, the federal government had promised to satisfy half of our calls for in writing… We needed to resolve the difficulty peacefully. However the authorities shouldn’t be honest. They simply need to waste time,” a farmers’ consultant advised reporters.

5. The Delhi Police have taken each doable step to cease the march from getting into Delhi. There may be 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 town.

6. Prohibitory orders banning massive gatherings have been declared in these areas. A lot of the roads have been barricaded with concrete blocks and barbed wire. The motion of economic autos 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 regulation towards private and non-private property injury that makes perpetrators pay. The state house division has directed the civil and cops 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 — referred to 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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