Protesting farmers meet Charanjit Singh Channi, with demands including debt waiver

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Protesting farmers, intending to pressurise the Congress government in Punjab to secure a bunch of demands including debt waiver, on Thursday met the state's chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi and presented their claims before the administration. According to farmer leader Joginder Singh, the farmers informed the chief minister of their demands – which include farm loan waivers, cancellation of FIRs lodged against farmers during the anti-farm law agitation, and compensation over land acquired for highway projects. The farmers, in their meeting with Punjab chief minister Channi, also demanded toll-free movement of their vehicles.

Channi, in turn, assured the farmers that he will talk to Nitin Gadkari, the Union minister of road transport and highways.

The next meeting between the state administration and the protesting farmers will take place on December 29, said Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Ekta Ugrahan Punjab president Joginder Singh.

“We met Punjab CM today over our demands which included farm loan waiver, compensation, etc,” Singh was quoted as saying. “The chief minister has said that he will talk to Union minister Nitin Gadkari on this. The next meeting is on December 29.”

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