Chandigarh, Jan 9: Talks between protesting farmers and the Supreme Court-appointed committee will restart in Chandigarh on Friday, nearly a year after the dialogue process came to a halt.
A 15-member delegation of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) will meet the high-powered panel, ending a stalemate that has continued since March 20, 2025, after farmers were removed from the Shambhu and Khanauri protest sites.
SKM leader Kaka Kotda said the meeting would centre on the demand for a legal guarantee on Minimum Support Price and other unresolved issues. “We will ask whether any progress has been made towards policy or legislative action on MSP,” he said.
The committee was constituted to facilitate dialogue between the Centre and farmers, keep political influence out of the negotiations, and propose solutions to long-standing agricultural grievances. It is headed by Justice Nawab Singh (retd) and includes P S Sandhu, Devender Sharma and Ranjit Singh Ghuman. Baldev Raj Kamboj, Vice-Chancellor of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, is associated with the panel as a special invitee.
Kotda said the delegation represents farmers from across the country. “Members are coming from Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh,” he said.
He added that the delegation would also meet Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Processing.
“The committee has already recommended a legal guarantee for MSP and other safeguards. We will seek clarity on the status of that report,” Kotda said. “Only after discussions will we decide the next course of action.”
The last engagement between the panel and farmer representatives took place on January 6, 2025, when the committee met farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal during his hunger strike.
