SUPREME COURT’S SUPREME INJUSTICE TO FARMERS
The three farm laws were — The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act. Due to continued agitations and blockades by farmers mostly from Punjab, Supreme Court on January 2020 stayed the implementation of the three farm laws duly passed by the Legislatures. After staying the farm laws, the Supreme Court set up a panel of four distinguished experts to study the aspects of the laws. The credentials of four members are Ashok Gulati - Agriculture economist, Anil Ghanwat, President of Shetkari Sanghatana (Maharashtra), Pramod Kumar Joshi - International Food Policy Research Institute and Bhupinder Singh Mann - President of a faction of the Bhartiya Kisan Union who later left the panel. In spite of the intervention of SC by suspending Farm Laws and appointing Experts Committee to study the Farm ...