Farmers Set To End Protests As Centre Accepts Almost All Demands: Sources

Last month Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered an "apology" and said the farm laws would be scrapped; on November 29 a bill to that effect was passed in Parliament

The government has given protesting farmers written assurance that their demands - which include guarantees for MSP - will be met, sources said Tuesday afternoon, in what is a hugely significant moment for an agitation that has rumbled on relentlessly for over 15 months.

Sources also said that in its letter to farmer unions, the government said it would form a committee on MSP and that all police cases, including those to do with stubble burning, will be dropped.

The farmers are discussing the proposal.

Should they accept this offer, the farmers will call off a protest that has made headlines across the country (and the world) for more than a year, triggering violent clashes with security forces, furious debates and ruckus in Parliament and the deaths, reportedly, of more than 700 farmers.