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DESPITE over 10,000 officials being on duty and hundreds of crores of rupees spent to tackle stubble burning, farm fires continue to plague north India, with Delhi routinely blaming Punjab and Haryana for its poor air quality in the winter.
NEW DELHI: A large number of farmers unions expressed their support for the farm laws before the Supreme Court even as proceedings were boycotted by the unions which have been staging roadblock protests at Singhu Border of Delhi for more than 45 days.
Bharatiya Kisan Sangh claiming membership of over 30 lakh farmers across the country, Consortium of Indian Farmers Associations mentioning about 15 lakh farmers as their members and Indian Kisan Union along with few other farmers unions told a bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian that they want implementation of farm laws as they are convinced that these laws will give farmers the freedom from middlemen and sell their goods at the highest price outside the APMC mandis.