Congress accuses BJP of ignoring farmers after coming to power, cites Rajnath's old video

On Thursday, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala slammed BJP for its alleged hypocritical approach pertaining to protests by farmers in national capital. To buttress his point, he shared an old video of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh who visited a farmers' stir near Parliament during UPA regime. In video, n BJP president is heard saying, "We didn't kw that a dharna is going on. If we knew this before, I would have come here on first day of dharna itself to give my support. Wherever a farmer is sitting on a protest, we must t see which party or organisation he belongs to". 

Taking on n PM Manmohan Singh, BJP leer also reportedly said, "For sure, PM must have got information through intelligence ncies. But he did t find it necessary to send a team to find out what problem is and what demands are. PM, you should understand this - force in world can affect morale of country's farmers when y come toger on streets". Slamming certain sections of ruling party who have cast aspersions on farmers for protesting against three agrarian laws, Surjewala contended that BJP's priorities h changed after forming government at Centre. Moreover, he questioned lack of any initiative by Rajnath Singh to resolve present crisis. 

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Centre to meet farmers again on December 5

Earlier in day, fourth round of talks between Centre and farmers' unions concluded without any significant progress. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar anunced that y would meet again at 2 pm on December 5. Besides him, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and MoS Commerce Som Parkash represented Centre in deliberations.

Revealing that discussion took place in a good atmosphere, Tomar stated that Union government is willing to discuss unions' objections pertaining to points such as strengning APMC, regulating private Mandis, dispute resolution and apprehensions over MSP. Moreover, he exuded confidence of two sides reaching a consensus on Saturday. On or hand, farmer unions remained stefast in ir demand for repeal of Farmers' Produce Tre and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020,  Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and  Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

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