Govt to farmers: Present your views point-wise and we can talk

Farmers during Kisan Sansad, in Delhi, on Thursday. Pic/PTI

Amid the farmers' protest at Janta Mantar against the new farm laws, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Thursday said the government is ready to discuss the matter with the farmers if they express their views about the laws point-wise.

"The country has witnessed that these farm laws are beneficial and are in favour of farmers. We have had discussions about these laws. If they express their issues about the laws point-wise, we can discuss it," Tomar told ANI.

Meanwhile, farmer leaders protesting at Jantar Mantar on Thursday said they suspect that they were also being snooped on by the government using Israeli software Pegasus.

Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav said the phone numbers of farmer leaders will figure in the data of the year 2020-21. "When this data will be made public, our numbers will be there, of course."

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