New Delhi: Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah held a meeting Thursday with a number of Union Ministers. Among those present in the meeting were Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal and Narendra Singh Tomar. The meeting was conducted at the BJP head office here to discuss the ongoing farmers’ agitation. Others who attended the meeting conducted by Amit Shah were BJP’s general secretaries CT Ravi, Dushyant Gautam and Arun Singh.
According to sources, during the meeting Shah reviewed the BJP’s outreach programme through press conferences and ‘chaupals’. He wanted to know whether open meetings are being conducted across all districts of India to allay fears on the new farm laws.
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Since the large-scale farmers’ agitation began a few weeks ago, the BJP has been organising press conferences and ‘chaupals’ in all districts. The party has planned to hold 700 press conferences and 700 ‘chaupals’ in the coming days. Shah has been holding meetings with Union Ministers on the protest issue and has also met farmers’ leaders.
The meeting was held on the day the Supreme Court heard a plea related to the farmers’ protests. The agitations are against the Centre’s three new agriculture laws.
The apex court Thursday acknowledged the right of farmers to non-violent protests. It suggested that the Centre put on hold the implementation of the three contentious agri laws. The Supreme Court said it was thinking of setting up an ‘impartial and independent’ panel of agriculture experts and farmer unions to resolve the impasse.
