IN PICS | Powerful Farmers Showdown At Delhi Borders Ahead Of Round 6 Talks With Centre

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Punjabi famous Singer Kanwar Grewal performs to support farmers' protest at Tikri border. Thousands of protesting farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, have been camping at three Delhi border points -- Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri --- for the last 31 days. (Image: PTI)

After a meeting at Singhu border -- a major protest venue at the Delhi-Haryana border -- the AIKSCC reiterated that the "first and foremost demand of the farmers of India is repeal of three farm Acts and the Electricity Bill, 2020, every other demand only follows this". (Image: PTI)

Meanwhile, a group of farmers raised slogans against Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal and tried to gherao him when he visited Gurdwara Sri Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib on Monday. The farmers protesting against the Centre's new farm laws also waved black flags at Badal. (Image: PTI)

All the farmers associations under the banner of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) reiterated that "they are and have always been open to a sincere dialogue". Farmers have been agitating for a long time under the AIKSCC for "MSP at C2+50% for all crops and all farmers and waiver of debts of all farmers and landless agriculture workers, adivasis." (Image: PTI)

This would be the sixth round of talks between the farmers and the government. The earlier rounds of talks remained inconclusive. Earlier on December 26, a group of 40 farmer union leaders had announced that the government-farmer dialogue will resume with the sixth round of talks on December 29. (Image: PTI)

Women farmers at Singhu border during their protest. Meanwhile, the Kisan Congress on Monday demanded it will hold a countrywide protest if these laws are not repealed. The Kisan Congress leader also announced that if the government does not take a decision to repeal the three laws, then they will extend this movement to all the districts of the country. (Image: PTI)

On Monday, farmer leaders agreed to a government proposal for holding the next round of talks on the new agricultural laws on December 30, but remained firm on their agenda of scrapping the laws. Enacted in September, the three farm laws have been projected by the Centre as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove the middlemen and allow farmers to sell their produce anywhere in the country. (Image: PTI)

A farmer dressed as groom takes part in a protest along with other farmers at Singhu border in New Delhi. The unions have agreed to hold the next round of talks with the Central government on Wednesday, but insist the agenda of the meeting should include discussing modalities for repealing the three legislations. (Image: PTI)

Protesting farmer unions have deferred to Thursday their proposed tractor march against the contentious agriculture laws, so that the rally does not clash with their talks with the government on Wednesday. (Image: PTI)

Women shout slogans as they take part farmers' ongoing agitation over new farm laws, at Tikri border. Earlier this week, Samyukt Kisan Morcha -- an umbrella body of 40 unions leading protests at Delhi border points --- had announced a tractor march from the Singhu and the Tikri borders to the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Highway on December 30. (Image: PTI)

Farmers prepare green colour 'Jalebis', symbolizing green revolution, during their protest at Singhu boder. In a letter signed by the Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, the government said that the meeting between the farmer leaders and the council of ministers would take place at Vigyan Bhawan on December 30 at 2 pm. (Image: PTI)