The Supreme Court will on January 11 hear a batch of pleas difficult the brand new farm legal guidelines in addition to the problems associated to the continued farmers’ protest at Delhi borders.
On Wednesday, a bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde noticed that there isn’t a enchancment on the bottom concerning farmers’ protests, following which the Centre conveyed to the courtroom that “healthy discussions” are occurring between the federal government and farmers over these points.
Attorney General Ok Ok Venugopal stated there’s a good probability that events could come to a conclusion within the close to future and submitting of response by the Centre on the pleas difficult the brand new farm legal guidelines may foreclose the negotiations between the farmers and authorities.
While informing the bench that talks are occurring between the federal government and farmers in a “healthy atmosphere”, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta stated that these issues shouldn’t be listed for listening to on January 8.
After listening to Venugopal and Mehta, the highest courtroom adjourned the matter for Monday. “We understand the situation and encourage consultation. We can adjourn the matters on Monday (January 11) if you submit the same due to the ongoing consultation process,” the bench stated.
On Monday, talks between the Centre and farmer unions remained inconclusive over two key calls for — repeal of the newly enacted legal guidelines and provision of authorized assure on the minimal help worth — with the 2 sides drawing the exhausting line on their respective positions.
The talks will resume on January 8 when the 2 sides sit throughout the desk for what would be the eight spherical of negotiations ever because the protests that introduced farmers from Punjab and Haryana to the gates of Delhi on November 26.
Emerging from the assembly with the unions Monday, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar advised reporters, “We wanted a clause-wise discussion on the laws, so that we could proceed on the way forward. The discussion was mainly centred on this. We discussed the issue of MSP briefly, but could not arrive at a decision. Therefore, the government and the unions decided to meet again on January 8 to take the discussions forward.”
“The meeting was cordial but could not find a way forward as they (farmer leaders) were adamant on the demand for repeal of the Acts. But I hope the way the discussions took place today, meaningful deliberations will again take place at the next meeting and, possibly, we will find a solution,” he stated.
Farmer union leaders stated they made it very clear to the federal government that the talks should be on their demand for repeal of the brand new legal guidelines.
Meanwhile, farmer unions protesting in opposition to the brand new agriculture legal guidelines have stated they might maintain a “tractor march” on the Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressways on January 7, as a “rehearsal” for January 26.
