Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the next installment of financial benefits under the Prime Minister Kisan Nidhi (PM-Kisan) through video-conferencing today. With the push of a button, Modi will enable more than nine crore beneficiary farmer families to transfer more than Rs 18,000 crore.
The PM will also interact with farmers from six states during the event, which comes against the backdrop of protests by farmers outside Delhi against three agri-marketing laws recently enacted by the Modi government.
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The Center on Thursday invited the farmers unions to resume the stalled negotiations and asked them to choose the date of their facility to end the deadlock over the three new agricultural laws.
But the peasant unions alleged that the government’s latest letter for talks was nothing but campaigning to make an impression against the farmers, which they are not interested in negotiating and revisiting the scrapping of new agricultural laws Have asked to start.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 40 farmer unions protesting for the last 27 days at Delhi’s three border points – Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur, held a meeting on Friday to discuss and react to the Center’s letter. Is likely to do. This formally.
The Union Ministry of Agriculture, while extending a new invitation, however, made it clear that it would not be ‘rational’ to include any new demand related to the Minimum Support Price (MSP) on the agenda, stating that this would be the scope of the new Is out of farm law.