NEW DELHI: The government should resolve the “political deadlock” on the new farm laws without the involvement of the Supreme Court, the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) said on Sunday and warned that protesters farmers “They will soon close all the borders” of Delhi if their demand for repeal of the laws is not met.
A day before the supreme court hears a series of pleas challenging the new farm laws, as well as those raising issues related to the ongoing turmoil, the organization said the Supreme Court “does not and cannot have any role in the resolution of a political stalemate “. the laws enacted by the government “under pressure from the companies.”
He said that “there is no function for the Supreme Court” and that the matter “should be left in the hands of the political leaders.”
He also accused the BJP-led government in the Center to “shirk political responsibility” to resolve the crisis. The government is using the Supreme Court “as a political shield,” alleged the AIKSCC.
“Farmers continue to surround Delhi on all sides and will soon close all borders. They are here to tell the BJP-led government and Parliament that it has passed the wrong laws,” the group said in a statement.
He said farm laws will uproot farmers, change the agricultural pattern, reduce food security and “lead to more suicides and deaths from hunger and destroy water, forests and ecological balance.”
Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, have stayed at various border points in Delhi since late November last year to protest against the laws.
The eighth round of talks between the Center and farmers ‘unions on January 7 seemed to be going nowhere, as the Center ruled out repealing the contentious laws, while farmers’ leaders said they are ready to fight until death and that his ‘ghar waapsi’ will occur only after ‘waapsi law’.
Monday’s hearing in the Supreme Court becomes important as the Center and peasant leaders are scheduled for their next meeting on January 15.
Enacted in September, the three laws have been projected by the central government as major reforms in the agricultural sector that will cut out middlemen and allow farmers to sell anywhere in the country.
However, protesting farmers have expressed fear that the new laws would pave the way to remove the Minimum Livelihood Price safety cushion and end the mandi system, leaving them at the mercy of large corporations.
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