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New setting, old demands: Centre, farmers to revive stalled discussions

With MSP talks set to resume this week, the Centre prepares to pitch assured pulses procurement - aligning with Budget policies - to protesting farmers

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Sanjeeb Mukherjee Delhi

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A few days from now, the central government will resume stalled talks with farmer groups who are demanding a legal guarantee on minimum support price for crops. The resumption of dialogue between the Centre and farmers — a significant section of whom belong to Punjab, a state governed by the Aam Aadmi Party — will come just days after the party’s crushing defeat in the Delhi Assembly elections. 
Last month, farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been sitting on a fast-unto-death on the border between Punjab and Haryana, had agreed to receive medical aid after a top-ranking Union government