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Chandigarh: Days after meeting with Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann where farmers were assured about the fulfillment of their demands, Hundreds of farmers under the banner of the Bharti Kisan Union-Ekta-Ugrahan and the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union, who were staging a sit-in protest in Chandigarh for six days, called off their protest on Friday.
CM Bhagwant Mann assured that demands of the farmers will be fulfilled by September 30. Mann assured them that the government is mulling introducing a scheme to wave off farm loans, besides safeguarding their interests with the new agriculture policy being framed.
Bharti Kisan Union-Ugrahan President Joginder Singh Ugrahan told the media here that they had urged the government to draft the agriculture policy. “They (the government) said it was being finalised and by September 30 it would finalised,” he said, adding: “We will wait till September 30. After we get a copy of the policy, we will go through it and hold a big meeting and decide the next course of action.” “So for the time being we have decided to end the protest in Chandigarh,” he said.
On Thursday evening, at a meeting with a delegation of the BKU-Ugrahan and the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union, the Chief Minister said the draft of the Punjab Agriculture Policy is ready but will be finalized only after due deliberations with food growers. He said the draft will be shared with the farmers by September 30 and their suggestions will be sought on the policy.
