Farmer leaders have asked the government to meet again on December 29 amid protests over new farm laws. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) also lost an ally, Rashtriya Loktantrik Party, today after its chief Hanuman Beniwal joined the farmers in their protest. In a news conference today, farmer leaders said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment at an event yesterday that only farmers from Haryana and Punjab are against the new laws was "misinformation".