While announcing their next move, farmer leader Jagjeet Singh Dalewala said that toll collection would be halted on highways in Haryana between December 25 and 27, PTI reported. He had also urged people to skip a meal in solidarity with the protesting farmers on Wednesday on the occasion of National Farmers’ Day.“From December 25 to 27 all toll booths in Haryana will not be allowed by us to collect toll, we will halt them from doing so. On December 27, our prime minister will say his ‘Mann ki baat’ and we want to appeal to the people to beat ‘thalis’ during his address, the same way the PM had asked the country to bang utensils for coronavirus,” the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader told reporters.On Saturday, the protesting farmer unions decided to resume the dialogue with the Centre and proposed December 29 as the date for the next round of talks, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said.So far, five rounds of talks have already taken place between the protesting farmers and the government, but a stalemate has continued with farmers refusing to accept anything less than a total repeal of the the three laws in question, which they fear would leave them at the mercy of corporates by weakening mandi and MSP systems.Farmers at Singhu border have started banging utensils. pic.twitter.com/bAchNd9YA1
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