The Political Fix: 'Judicial barbarism' and the farmers rejection of the SC-appointed committee
“All the members of this Committee are pro-government and had been justifying the laws of the government.” “We never demanded from Supreme Court to form committee, government is behind all these.” In fact, the pushback seemed intense enough for one of the four named to the committee – Bhupinder Singh Mann – to recuse himself. “I will always stand with my farmers and Punjab,” he said. Mann had also been expelled from his own farm union, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Mann), which renamed itself the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Punjab). Other members of the committee claim they will car...