Farmer union tells SC to disband negotiation committee, appoint neutral members who can do the job In an affidavit, it also sought dismissal of a plea file by the Centre seeking an injunction against the proposed tractor march which seeks to disrupt the gathering and celebrations of Republic Day on 26 January FP Staff January 16, 2021 21:50:39 IST Representational image. PTI
A farmer union requested the Supreme Court on Saturday to remove the remaining three members of the committee it had set up to resolve the impasse over the three contentious farm laws, and select people who can do the job on the basis of mutual harmony .
The Supreme Court s judgment on the farmers agitation, is an interim order that, like Wordsworth s
Lucy, has none to praise, and very few to love it. The government side thinks that judges have overstepped the traditional doctrine of separation of powers, by interdicting legislation without a final ruling on constitutionality. The agitating farmers accept the stay on implementation of the farm acts, but have rejected the grievance committee offered, as they suspect it to be partisan in composition. To add to the negation, even a member of the committee, has now recused from its membership. The court s order on the farm agitation, is seen as bargaining to shelve implementation of acts of parliament, at the cost of requiring the farmers to not persist in agitation, but to air their grievances, before a committee, committed to supporting the farm reform bills. The government has thus been given a face-saving exit-route, without officially abrogating parliamentary legislation in th
Narendra Singh Tomar, Piyush Goyal, Som Parkash begin 9th round of talks with 40 farmer leaders The Supreme Court had on Tuesday stayed the implementation of the three laws and appointed a four-member panel to resolve the impasse Union railway minister Piyush Goyal, Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar and BJP MP Som Prakash at a meeting with representatives of various farmer unions over the Centre s farm reform laws, in New Delhi. PTI
New Delhi: The ninth round of talks between protesting farmer unions and three central ministers got underway here on Friday afternoon to break the over-a-month-long deadlock on the three new agricultural laws.
Farmer protests: Ninth round of talks ends, next meet on 19 Jan; govt urges unions to form informal grouping Meanwhile, the Congress party shored up its attack against the Centre over the issue, with Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi leading protests in New Delhi FP Staff January 15, 2021 19:25:38 IST Representational image of farmers protest. AP
The ninth round of talks between the Centre and protesting farmers also ended inconclusively, with another round scheduled to be held on 19 January.
Protesting farmer unions stuck to their demand for a complete repeal of the three contentious farm laws at their ninth round of talks with three central ministers, but the government asked them to be more flexible in their approach and expressed willingness for necessary amendments.
SC stays farm laws | Concerns, impact and benefits explained
Thousands of farmers are staging a sit-in protest demanding rollback of the new farm reform laws. After SC s decision to stay the implementation of the legislation, who is set to benefit? Let s find out