Govt willing to hold farm laws for 1.5 yrs, farmers say 'will revert'

Previous rounds of talks have so far failed to mollify tens of thousands of farmers who have been camping out on the outskirts of Delhi for more than two months

Farmers unions said on Wednesday they would get back to the government about its proposal to suspend three contested agriculture laws for one and half years, marking the outcome of a tenth round of talks between the two sides. 

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Railways, Commerce and Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash, who is an MP from Punjab, held talks with representatives of 40 farmer unions at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi.

"The government proposed to suspend the farm laws for one and a half years. We rejected the proposal but since it has come from