Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram lashed out at the Centre’s stand over the impasse on the farm laws, alleging that ‘no one’ was consulted for the legislations, and asserted that the only way out for the government was to agree to start on a ‘clean slate’.

His comments gathered stem a day after the Centre asked protesting farmers to form an informal group to prepare a concrete proposal about their objections and suggestions on the farm laws for further discussion at their next meeting on January 19 to end the long-running protest at various Delhi borders. The agitating farmer unions, however, stuck to their main demand of a complete repeal of the three legislations.

In a number of tweets, Mr. Chidambaram said that as expected, another round of discussion between the farmers and govt has failed. The fault lies with the govt because it will not agree to get rid of the disputed laws, he said.

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