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Farmers Protest: Amid the ongoing farmer's protest demanding a guaranteed minimum support price on crops, among several others, Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda said that there are so many things to consider in the formulation of new laws. He also added that the government wants to discuss this with the farmer organizations. Arjun Munda told ANI that the government has assured them (farmers) that all the administrative work will be fast-tracked. According to news agency PTI, citing farmer leader reports, a meeting will be held with Union ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal, and Nityanand Rai.

Farmers Protest: Here Are Top Updates:

- Munda, who is negotiating with farmer leaders, urged all the leaders from different farmers' organisations to cooperate and communicate so that the common people shouldn't have to suffer. 

- Rahul Gandhi may join the farmers protest, reports Indian Express, and that's why he has cancelled the second leg of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Jharkhand.

- He also said that the government is completely ready to find a solution through dialogue, but the farmer's organisations, instead of solving the problems, are only adding to them.

- Haryana security personnel lobbed tear gas shells on farmers from Punjab at the Shambhu border between the two states as thousands of protesters stayed there on Wednesday, the second day of their 'Delhi Chalo' march. The action of the police came soon after any group of protesting farmers tried to move barricades.

- The police have deployed a drone to keep an eye on the protesting farmers, who are demanding a legal guarantee to the minimum support price (MSP).

- A video went viral of a few youth flying kites at the Singhu border in order to bring the drone down by entangling the unmanned aerial vehicle in the kite strings. According to news agency PTI, one of the youths, flying the kite, expressed anger over the use of drones to drop tear gas shells on the protesters.

- Haryana Police has sealed the border with barricades to stop the farmers from travelling to Delhi on their tractor-trolleys.

- Congress said that the central government has "betrayed" farmers by not implementing the Swaminathan Commission recommendations and demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise to the country for it.

- The opposition party said its promise to give a legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) is the only way to implement the Swaminathan Commission report and claimed that the prime minister is "opposing" what he had recommended when he was the Gujarat chief minister.

- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi talked with a farmer injured in police action durig the protest march and accused the  Modi government of having a "dictatorial attitude" towards the country's food providers.

(With input from agencies)