Ahmedabad, Jan 25: While Centre's top emissary and Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley today claimed that a solution has been found to the farmer's problems, senior Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) leaders said the stir has only been "suspended" owing to a "conducive atmosphere for dialogue". "We have come to a complete solution on two issues and a committee of five ministers would be set up to look into other issues," Jaitley, who held parleys with senior BKS, RSS leaders and senior state ministers, told reporters.
Regarding hike in power tariff in the agriculture sector, he said a five-member committee, comprising state ministers, would formulate a solution to this and other issues.
However, senior BKS leader Maganbhai Patel said that "the farmer's agitation is only suspended temporarily as the atmosphere for dialogue with the government has improved and they had 'unconditionally' agreed to the demands".
“The state government agreed to replace the power transformers in 3,000 hectares of land in Kutch and to withdraw all the cases registered against farmers. The five member committee comprising state ministers has agreed to sit together every 15 days to solve other issues. We would be submitting further details of demands to them very soon," he said.
Patel also said with a word of caution that "the farmers would resume their agitation if there were signs that the talks were not heading anywhere and no solution (to other issues such as hike in power tariff) was in sight". Bureau Report