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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said that the farmers have requested a guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) on the purchase of pulses. This comes after the fourth round of talks between Union Ministers and farmer leaders. Mann told reporters that he was in the meeting as an advocate of the farmers. CM Mann said, “The discussions went on for five hours. I talked about the benefits for Punjab. We had asked for an MSP guarantee on the purchase of pulses, which was discussed today.” Earlier, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said that they had a very positive discussion with the farmers. Goyal added that farmer leaders will announce their decision on the government proposals by February 19. Farmers began their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march on February 13. Watch the video to know more.

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00:05 Today is the fourth day of the meeting.
00:12 Earlier, we had a long discussion for about five hours.
00:19 The meeting started at around 8. It is 1 o'clock in the night.
00:26 We had a lot of discussions.
00:36 I am a representative of Punjab.
00:44 I will talk about the proposals that would benefit Punjab.
00:53 You may remember that on 8th February,
00:59 I had briefed the media.
01:02 I had told you that I had raised a topic there.
01:06 Our country is 2 billion dollars worth of crops from Mujambik and Columbia.
01:20 We import crops from Mujambik and Columbia.
01:33 I had told the Minister of Agriculture and other ministers that
01:41 if we can get MSP from the crops we import from Mujambik,
01:57 we can provide you with crops.
02:00 History will repeat itself.
02:04 Our country was dependent on foreign countries.
02:12 If America had not done this, then the Hari Kranti would have come.
02:17 The Hari Kranti brought the crops from Punjab to the country.
02:25 We are suffering the loss of the Hari Kranti because our water level has gone down.
02:33 I had told the ministers to give us the crops.
02:39 We have so much to offer that we will give you the crops.
02:43 But we need to have MSP guarantee.
02:46 We need to have MSP guarantee.
02:49 [Music]
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03:28 If we want to have MSP guarantee, we need to have a crop diversification.
03:34 [Speaking in Hindi]
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04:19 [Speaking in Hindi]
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