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January 14, 2021
Explained: The Views Of Four-Member Committee Appointed By Supreme Court To Mediate Between Farmers And The Centre by Swarajya Staff - Jan 13, 2021 09:53 AM Farmers protest against new laws. Snapshot The committee will mediate between the farmers and the government and make recommendations to resolve the crisis. The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday (12 January) ordered for constitution of a four member committee for mediating between the central government and the protesting farmers who have ...
January 14, 2021
Nadda Slams Opposition Parties Over Criticism of New Farm Laws, Says They Suggested Reforms FOLLOW US ON: BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday mounted a scathing attack on opposition parties over the new Central farm laws, saying though they had earlier promised agricultural reforms, they were now supporting those agitating against the Centre on the matter. The BJP chiefs comments here came on a day when Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Madurai slammed the Centre over the contentious legislati...
January 14, 2021
Days after being appointed by the Supreme Court as part of a four-member committee to resolve the deadlock between protesting farmers and the Central government, Bhartiya Kisan Union President Bhupinder Singh Mann has recused himself from the panel on the grounds that he will not compromise with the interest of farmers and Punjab. The protesting farmers and the Centre are set to hold their 9th round of negotiations at 12 pm on Friday. Mann said he is ready to sacrifice any position to preven...
January 14, 2021
BJP president J.P. Nadda on Thursday charged the opposition parties with supporting those agitating against the Farm laws trying to politicise the issue. Mr. Nadda said Prime Minister Narendra Modi ha
January 14, 2021
J P Nadda arrives in Chennai on Thursday (Photo by L R Shankar) CHENNAI: The BJP wants to emerge as a mainstream party in Tamil Nadu, national president J P Nadda on Thursday. “We want the Kamalam (Thamarai) to bloom here,” Nadda said. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had reiterated that Tamil Nadu would play a major role in the development of the nation. “Cooperative federalism is working here. The schemes implemented here by Modi government’s is benefitting people,” Nadda said ...
January 14, 2021
The opposition parties had assured in their own manifestos that farming reforms will be brought in, he said without naming anyone. "They themselves wrote that APMC (Agricultural Produce Marketing committees) have to go or needs changes. They mentioned that Essential Commodities Act is an age-old law that needs to be amended," he said. Nadda added that politics appeared so important to the opposition parties that they seemed to compromise on issues concerning the nation. Their sole objective it ...
January 13, 2021
Former Rajya Sabha MP Bhupinder Singh Mann NEW DELHI: Former Rajya Sabha MP Bhupinder Singh Mann, one of four members of the committee set up by the Supreme Court on Tuesday to facilitate talks between farmer outfits and the Centre, said he would not allow the support he had extended to the farm laws to diminish the faith protesting farmers had in the apex court. The 81-year-old president of Bharatiya Kisan Union, like the three other members of the panel, had earlier supported the laws the fa...
January 13, 2021
Farm laws stayed, farmers stay put: What is the row now? The Supreme Court has suspended the implementation of the three farm laws and appointed a committee to look into the legislation. But this has failed to satisfy the protesting unions. Heres what continues to fuel farm stir advertisement UPDATED: January 13, 2021 16:08 IST A wrestling match is underway at Delhis Tikri border during the farmers protest over the three farm laws. (Photo: PTI) What appeared as a major setback to the government...
January 13, 2021
January 13, 2021 Anil Ghanwat× “My stand to support the law was as a member of my organisation,” says Shetkari Sanghatana president Anil Ghanwat is one of the members of the Supreme Court (SC) panel on farm laws. He is president of Shetkari Sanghatana, the apex farmers’ body in Maharashtra founded by the late Sharad Joshi. For over 40 years, Shetkari Sanghatana has been advocating that farmers must get “freedom of access to markets and to technology”. Ghanwat, who is Joshi’s staunc...
January 12, 2021
Supreme Court Stays Implementation of Farm Laws, Sets Up Committee for Talks Agricultural economist Ashok Gulati, Bhupinder Singh Mann of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, Anil Ghanwat of Shetkeri Sangthana and Pramod Kumar Joshi will be the members of the committee. Supreme Court building. Photo: The Wire Rights12/Jan/2021 New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended the implementation of the Centre’s three contentious farm laws until further orders, saying it would constitute a committee to...