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For over four months, agitating farmers have surrounded India’s capital, New Delhi, often blocking major roads and railway lines. They stormed Delhi’s fabled Red Fort on India’s Republic Day, January 26. The protesting farmers want the repeal of three farm reform laws enacted in September 2020, and all attempts at compromise have failed. The Supreme Court suggested resolution by a committee of experts but the farmers rejected the committee. The spectacle of thousands of farmers camping in tractors in the winter cold around Delhi for so long has drawn admiration and sympathy from many in India and abroad. Yet the farm reforms are actually overdue changes that will benefit Indian agriculture in the long run. The agitators represent the richest, most subsidized farmers rather than impoverished victims. Farmers in all democracies form powerful voting blocs that extract concessions from governments. India’s farmers are no except
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Farmers protest: Supreme Court to hear pleas related to Republic Day tractor rally violence today One of the pleas has sought the setting up of a three-member probe panel headed by a former SC judge to collect evidence and submit a report on the 26 Jan violence to the top court in a time-bound manner File image of the Supreme Court of India. PTI
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a batch of pleas pertaining to tractor rally violence in the National Capital on the Republic Day, including the one which has sought setting up of a commission headed by a retired apex court judge to inquire into the incident.
SC to hear on Wednesday pleas related to tractor rally violence on Republic Day
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The petitions would be taken up for hearing by a bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian.
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On January 12, the apex court had stayed the implementation of the contentious new farm laws till further orders
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a batch of pleas pertaining to tractor rally violence in the national capital on the Republic Day, including the one which has sought setting up of a commission headed by a retired apex court judge to inquire into the incident.
Farmers’ protest | SC to hear on Wednesday pleas related to tractor rally violence on Republic Day
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The petitions would be taken up for hearing by a bench comprising Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian
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The petitions would be taken up for hearing by a bench comprising Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a batch of pleas pertaining to tractor rally violence in the national capital on the Republic Day, including the one which has sought setting up of a commission headed by a retired apex court judge to inquire into the incident.