Chandigarh, Jan 9: After nearly a year-long pause, discussions between protesting farmers and the Supreme Court-appointed high-powered committee are set to resume in Chandigarh on Friday, with a delegation of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) scheduled to meet the panel.
A 15-member SKM delegation will attend the meeting, marking the first formal interaction since March 20, 2025, when talks were halted following the eviction of farmers from the Shambhu and Khanauri border protest sites.
Confirming the meeting, SKM (Non-Political) leader Kaka Kotda said the delegation would seek clarity on the committee’s progress, particularly on issues related to a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP).
“We want to know whether any concrete steps have been taken towards framing laws or policies on MSP and other pending agricultural concerns,” Kotda said.
The committee is headed by former Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Justice Nawab Singh (retd) and includes former Haryana Director General of Police P S Sandhu, agriculture economist Devender Sharma, and Professor of Eminence at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Ranjit Singh Ghuman. Vice-Chancellor of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Baldev Raj Kamboj, is a special invitee.
Kotda said the delegation comprises representatives from multiple states. “The 15-member delegation includes farmers from Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh,” he said.
Apart from the meeting with the panel, the delegation will also hold talks with MP Charanjit Singh Channi, chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Processing.
“The committee had recently recommended a legal guarantee for MSP along with other measures to protect farmers’ interests. We will seek the status of that report,” Kotda said, adding that future steps would be decided only after Friday’s discussions.
The last interaction between farmers and the committee took place on January 6, 2025, when members met farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who was then on a hunger strike.
