Farmers' protest | Centre's affidavit on farm laws an attempt to mislead Supreme Court, nation: Congress
Not even perfunctory consultations were made on farm laws, it says. The Narendra Modi government’s affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on January 11 claiming that due consultations were made before bringing in the three farm laws is an attempt to “prevaricate, distort, misrepresent and mislead”, the Congress said on January 13. At an online press conference, party spokesperson and senior Supreme Court lawyer Abhishek Singhvi said the government’s affidavit is at variance to an RTI reply given by them. In reply to two RTI applications filed by activist Anjali Bhardwaj who sought det...