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The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday stayed implementation of the three farm laws till further order, while forming a four-member committee of agriculturists and agri-economists to hear farmers’ grievances against these Acts.
A bench headed by chief justice Sharad A Bobde says, We are going to suspend the implementation of the three farm laws until further orders.
Justifying the stay on implementation of farm laws, the apex court says, We deem it fit to pass the following interim order, with the hope and expectation that both parties will take this in the right spirit and attempt to arrive at a fair, equitable and just solution to the problems.
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
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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 end the stalemate between the government and the protesting farmers’ unions.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) S.A. Bobde proposed agricultural economist Ashok Gulati, Bhupinder Singh Mann of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, Anil Ghanwat of Shetkeri Sangthana and Pramod Kumar Joshi as members of the committee. Each of these members, however, have made statements in the past publicly supporting the new laws.
Supreme Court s decision to stay Centre s farm laws sets a worrying precedent It appears a clear case of judicial overreach and may potentially shake the foundation of India’s representative democracy by undermining the legislative organ of the state Sreemoy Talukdar January 12, 2021 17:43:15 IST File image of the Supreme Court of India. Reuters
The Supreme Court of India has set a terrible precedent by staying the implementation of farm laws aimed at liberalising the farm sector that were passed by the Parliament last year. It appears a clear case of judicial overreach and may potentially shake the foundation of India’s representative democracy by undermining the legislative organ of the state, diluting the Constitutional tenet of broad separation of powers between the legislative, executive and the judiciary thereby upsetting the delicate balance o
NEW DELHI: The Centre should repeal the three farm laws or it will cost the ruling BJP-JJP alliance in Haryana heavily , a section of JJP MLAs said on Tuesday, hours before their party chief and deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala meets Union home minister Amit Shah here.
Chautala and Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar are scheduled to meet Shah in the national capital, and they will be accompanied by BJP state president O P Dhankar.
The BJP, which won 40 seats in the 90-member Haryana assembly in the 2019 polls, formed government with the support of 10 Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) MLAs and several Independents.