Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar offered tea to farmer union leaders during a meeting on Tuesday, farmers in return, invited the minister to their protest site and offered to serve him 'jalebi' and 'pakoda' along with tea at their langar (community kitchen).
Jamhuri Kisan Sabha's Kulwant Singh Sandhu told news agency, "Tomar Saheb requested us to have tea during the break between the meeting, but we in return extended him an invitation to accompany us to our protest site where we are serving tea along with jalebi and pakodas in langar. This led to laughter all around". He further added that farmers' unions leaders wanted to utilise the break time to discuss the government's offer of forming committee.
The deadlock between protesting farmers and the Centre continued as no conclusion was arrived at the meeting held between farmers' leader and government ministers on Tuesday. The protesting farmers refused to accept the Centre's proposal to form a committee to discuss the contentious farm laws and said that their only demand is the complete rollback of the three legislations.
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