8.35 am: The controversial farm laws are: The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, The Essential Commodit...
8.35 am: The controversial farm laws are: The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act.
A stay on their implementation by the Supreme Court means the Narendra Modi government cannot, for the time being, enforce the laws.
8.33 am: Who is on the Supreme Court-appointed panel to resolve deadlock?
These are the four names:
- Bhupinder Singh Mann, National President, Bhartiya Kisan Union and All India Kisan Coordination Committee.
- Pramod Kumar Joshi, agricultural economist, director for South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute.
- Ashok Gulati, agricultural economist and former chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.
- Anil Ghanwat, president, Shetkari Sanghatana, a Maharashtra-based farmer body.
As has been pointed out by many observers including the farmer groups themselves, all four of the members of the committee have previously spoken out in favour of the laws in some form or the other.
8.30 am: Farmers have refused to appear before the Supreme Court-nominated committee to resolve the standoff over three agricultural reform laws. They have said the members were in support of the new legislations and were “pro-government”.
8.22 am: Som Prakash, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, calls on all sides to “honour” the Supreme Court’s ruling on...
