6.55 pm: Some protestors are still inside the Red Fort, NDTV reports.
#FarmersProstests | Tractors exit Red Fort, many protesters still inside
6.51 pm: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expresses concern over the situation in Delhi. “Centre’s insensitive attitude and indifference towards our farmer brothers and sisters has to be blamed for this situation,” she adds.
First, these laws were passed without taking farmers in confidence. And then despite protests across India & farmers camping near Delhi for last 2 months, they ve been extremely casual in dealing with them.
Centre should engage with the farmers & repeal the draconian laws. (2/2) Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) January 26, 2021
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde. | PTI
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde said on Tuesday that a person cannot be disqualified from being a member of a committee just because they have earlier expressed an opinion on the subject that is under consideration by the panel,
Bar and Bench reported. He was indirectly referring to the four-member committee created by the Supreme Court to resolve the deadlock between protesting farmers and the Centre on three contentious agricultural laws.
“There is some confusion regarding the law,” Bobde said during a hearing of a case related to inadequacies and inefficiencies in criminal trial. “One person may have an opinion before being part of the committee but his opinion can change. There is no way that such a person cannot be part of the committee.”