After 19 days and several other rounds of talks, farmers protesting outdoors chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s non-public residence in Sangrur on Friday agreed to finish their protest because the Punjab authorities gave a written assurance that it had accepted their calls for.

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Farmers will finish their protest on Saturday as they’ve already given a name to arrange a rally on the protest web site. The protest will conclude after the rally.

They have been on an indefinite protest outdoors the CM’s residence since October 9. They have blocked the 3-km stretch main as much as Sangrur from the Patiala-Bathinda freeway.

The authorities and farmers reached an settlement after agriculture minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal and the state management of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Ekta-Ugrahan met in Patiala on Friday.

Officials stated that the federal government agreed to implement their calls for inside a set timeframe.

Sangrur deputy commissioner Jitendra Jorwal, who attended the assembly, stated, “The state government has agreed to the farmers’ demands so they have agreed to lift the protest on Saturday.”

The farmers have been demanding the discharge of compensation to growers for broken crops and for the loss of life of cattle as a result of lumpy pores and skin illness. They additionally sought enhancement in land acquisition reduction.

Other main calls for embrace the closure of a liquor manufacturing unit at Mansurwal village close to Zira and cancellation of instances registered towards farmers for burning crop residue and protesting together with a bonus of 200 per quintal for the administration of stubble with out burning it, apart from compensation and jobs for members of the family of two farmers, who died through the protest. The our bodies of those farmers are nonetheless stored within the mortuaries of the Sangrur civil hospital and Government Rajindra Hospital, Patiala.

“After dialogue on every demand at a gathering with the state authorities on October 7, the chief minister had agreed to just accept our calls for. However, we got nothing in writing. Now the federal government has given a written assurance and stuck time for implementing the calls for,” stated Joginder Singh Ugrahan, state president of the union, after the assembly.