New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed committee on Friday held consultations with 12 farmer unions and peasants from eight states, including West Bengal, on the controversial farm laws enacted by the Centre recently. This is the seventh meeting held by the panel so far. The three-member committee is holding consultations with stakeholders, both online and in person. In a statement, the committee said it held its interactions through video conference with farmers, farmer unions and farmer producer organisations (FPOs). Twelve farm unions and farmers from Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal participated in the detailed deliberations with the committee members, it said.

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 “It is the business of ‘’Bharat Mata’’ which feeds the nation,” he said at the rally held in Padampur town of Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar district.
 The agitation against the laws will spread in the country as it is not linked to farmers alone. It is the issue of labourers, traders, small and medium businessmen and the middle class, he said.