On the 14th of December, nearly organisations representing farmers in several states met Union agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.
As per sources, farmers organisations extended support to the three farm laws and accepted changes.
With this, a total of four groups of farmer extended support to the laws in the past few days.
The 10 organisations which extended support belongs to Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Bihar and Haryana, associated with All India Kisan Coordination Committee, submitted a memorandum to the Union agriculture minister.
Mr. Tomar confirmed that extension of support, “Members of All India Kisan Coordination Committee had come from Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Maharashtra and Bihar. They supported farm laws and gave us a letter on the same. They said that the Modi government has done this for the welfare of farmers and that they welcome and support it.”
Earlier, on the 13th of December, a delegation of more than 100 farmers from Uttarakhand extended their support to the laws.
Before that, a delegation of 29 farmers from Haryana met Narendra Singh Tomar and extended their support to the new legislations and threatened to stage a protest if those are repealed.
The delegation, led by Bharatiya Kisan Union’s (Mann) Haryana state leader Guni Prakash, submitted a “letter of support” to Tomar on the farm laws passed by Parliament in September and demanded the Government to continue with these legislations.
Thousands of farmers, largely from Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting against the farm laws and vowed to intensify their agitation.
In regard to this, the farmers called for a nationwide strike on the 14th of December.
