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UPDATED: January 27, 2021 00:08 IST
Farmers remove police barricades set up near Red Fort during their tractor rally on Tuesday (Source: PTI)
What started as a peaceful demonstration on November 26 last year, when thousands of farmers gathered at the capital s doorstep protesting against the three contentious farm laws,
So far, eleven rounds of talks between the government and farmer unions have failed to break the impasse although Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar has offered a proposal to keep the laws under suspension for 1-1.5 years. The farmers, on the other hand, have demanded a complete repeal of the three black laws and legal guarantee of the government for minimum support price (MSP) of their crops.
Explained: What farmers want and why they are protesting
Protesting farmer march to the capital on the Republic Day
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Thousands of farmers have been camping at several Delhi border points since 26 November
On 11 January, the SC stayed the implementation of new farm laws till further orders and decided to set up a 4-member committee to resolve the impasse between the Centre and farmers unions protesting
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The farmers protesting against the three farm laws, clashed with police at several places in the national capital on Tuesday. The Delhi Police had earlier permitted the farmers to hold their tractor parade on selected routes on the Republic Day. The chaos erupted when the farmers broke through the police barricades in the capital. A protesting farmer died after his tractor overturned at ITO during the farmers’ tractor parade on Tuesday, police said.
The Supreme Court’s intervention (
Rakesh Vaishnav v Union of India 2021) in the ongoing protests and debate over the three controversial “farm laws”
1 has been met with a storm of criticism (Hegde 2021; Yamunan 2021). It has “stayed the implementation” of the three farm laws “until further orders” and set up a committee of four members “for the purpose of listening to the grievances of the farmers relating to the farm laws and the views of the Government and to make recommendations” (
Rakesh Vaishnav v Union of India 2021).
To say that the order has attracted controversy would be putting it mildly. For a start, the committee it set up composed of four men recommended by the union government, Bhupinder Singh Mann, Pramod Kumar Joshi, Ashok Gulati, and Anil Ghanwat had already expressed their support for the farm laws in their present form (Alvi 2021). The farmers have understandably indicated that they would not appear before the committee in any capacity,
CJI Bobde Was Once Closely Associated With Farmers Group Whose Head is Now in SC Committee
Anil Ghanawat joined the Shetkari Sanghatana after Bobde, as a Nagpur lawyer, stopped representing the group but veterans from the time question his inclusion in the farm laws committee appointed by the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde. Photo: PTI
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Nagpur: Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde used to have a close relationship with the Shetkari Sanghatana, a farmersâ group whose current president Anil Ghanawat is on the Supreme Court-appointed committee to mediate between the government and farmers protesting against three new farm laws. Tens of thousands of farmers, especially from Punjab and Haryana, have been camping on the borders outside Delhi in protest for several weeks now, insisting that the government repeal the laws.