Farmers to ring in New Year at borders as leaders draw plans for next meet

Adamant on call for repealing three farm acts even as industry bodies claim stir has caused Rs 70,000 cr loss

Ahead of the crucial seventh round of talks between the protesting farmers and the government slated for January 4, farmers’ leaders today prepared their plans to make the Centre agree to the two main demands of repeal of the three acts and some sort of legal backing to the Minimum Support Price (MSP).

“The Centre’s appeal yesterday to the farmers to suggest an alternative to repeal of the three acts is an impossibility as the Centre itself has thrust these laws on the people undemocratically,” the working group of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), one the groups