Farmer leaders on Friday called for protests against the three new farm laws to be intensified and called for Bharat Bandh on 8 December."Yesterday, we told the Government (at the meeting) that the farm laws should be withdrawn. We have given a call for Bharat Bandh on 8 December," said Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU-Lakhowal) General Secretary, H.S. Lakhowal at Singhu Border."We need to take this protest forward. Government has to take back the farm laws," said Hannan Mollah, General Secretary, All India Kisan Sabha, at Singhu border.
Talks between three union ministers and a representative group of thousands of agitating farmers failed to yield any resolution on Thursday, as the union leaders stuck to their demand for the repeal of new farm laws and even refused the lunch, tea, and water offered to them during almost eight-hour-long hectic parleys.On its part, the government assured the group of nearly 40 farmer leaders that all their valid concerns would be addressed, but the other side flagged several loopholes and deficiencies in the laws, which they said were passed hastily in September.The Agriculture Ministry tweeted that doubts of farmers were addressed by Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, who led the government side at the talks.