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Farmers Protest: The farmers on Wednesday continued their Delhi Chalo March with more and more of them reaching Delhi borders, including Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur. Security personnel fired some tear gas shells on farmers Wednesday morning at the Shambhu border near Ambala as the peasants gathered there to resume their Dilli Chalo protest. The farmers have been demanding, among others, a law on Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all crops, as recommended by the Swaminathan Commission report.

Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda, who has been a part of the Centre's team to negotiate with protesting farmers, said that the Centre is ready to hold discussions considering all farmers' viewpoints. However, the Union Minister urged the protesting farmers to cooperate with the authorities and asked them to avoid actions that disrupt daily life.

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"I had already said that our efforts to hold positive discussions with the farmers' union will continue. Farmers' organizations must understand that the decision on the law that is being talked about cannot be taken in such a way that people criticize the situation without thinking and understanding in the coming days. Rather, we should try to keep in mind all the aspects of it and discuss it," Munda said.

"The second thing is that the farmers will also have to pay attention to this, especially the leaders of those organizations who are connected with the farmers' organization and are saying such things that do not affect the common life of the people," he added.

"The common life of the people should not be troubled in any way. Creating difficulties for the common people, I think, instead of solving the problem, the problem becomes more complicated. Therefore, I will request the farmers' organizations today that they should maintain the atmosphere of dialogue," Munda further said.

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Meanwhile, Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee General Secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher on the delay in enacting a law on MSP said, "There are reports in the media that the MSP guaranteeing law cannot be formed so soon. All, we are saying is to give us a legal guarantee on that (MSP) so that we don't sell crops below that MSP. So, there is no question of a Committee. We would want the PM to step forward and speak with the farmers."

"It is said that you (Modi) have a big heart. Give us a law to guarantee the MSP," Pandher said. Whether farmers have received an invitation to hold talks, Pandher said it was being said that the Centre was inviting farmers for a dialogue. "And we will consider that invitation," he said.

Pandher also criticised the Centre for the police action against the protesting farmers, saying many cultivators have been injured. "But even then we don't say that we don't want to hold a dialogue but we urge the government to stop all this and ensure a positive atmosphere. We were ready for talks yesterday and we are ready for it even today," he said.

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