NEW DELHI: Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday invited leaders of various farmer unions for talks on December 1. The meeting will take place at 3 PM at Vigyan Bhawan, the minister said.

"On November 13, we decided to conduct the next round of talks on December 3, but farmers continued their protest and with the Covid situation and winters, we decided that we needed to talk before December 3 and resolve the situation. That is why on December 1 at 3 pm in Vigyan Bhawan, all Kisan Unions are invited who were present in the first round of meeting," the minister said.

The ongoing protests by thousands of farmers against the Centre's new farm laws entered the fifth day on Monday, with the protestors threatening to block all five entry points to the national capital. Rejecting the Centre's offer to hold talks once they move to the Burari ground, the farmers said they will not accept any conditional dialogue and have called a meeting to discuss their next course of action later in the day.