LIVE updates from the farmers’ protest: One day after the Supreme Court said that the government’s negotiations with protesting farmers “apparently have not worked out” and that it will form a committee with representatives from both sides to resolve the impasse , the higher court will resume the hearing. the petition calling for the expulsion of protesting farmers from the borders. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, who is leading the government side in the negotiations, said that the current turmoil on Delhi’s borders is limited to one state and that Punjab farmers are being “misled” by the opposition. However, he expressed hope that there will be a solution “soon” to the current deadlock. The protesting farmers’ unions said that the constitution of a new panel to break the deadlock on the three new farm laws is not a solution, as they want a complete withdrawal of the legislation. They also said the government should have formed a committee of farmers and others before Parliament enacted the laws. Abhimanyu Kohar, leader of the Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sabha, which is one of 40 protesting farmers’ unions, said they have already rejected a recent government offer to form such a panel.
On Twitter, the leader of Swaraj India, Yogendra Yadav, who is also a member of the umbrella group Sankyukt Kisan Morcha, said: “The SC can and should decide on the constitutionality of the 3 agricultural laws. But it is not the judiciary to decide on the feasibility and convenience of these laws. That is between farmers and their elected leaders. SC-supervised negotiation would be the wrong way to go. ” Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan), which has been leading the unrest on the Tikri border, said that a new committee would now make no sense. Enacted in September, the three farm laws have been projected by the government as major reforms in the agricultural sector that will cut out middlemen and allow farmers to sell anywhere in the country.
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