The Supreme Court of Indiawill today hear a clutch of petitions regarding farmers' agitation and contentiousfarm laws that have triggered nationwide and indefinite protests onthe borders of the capital city.
According to a lead storypublished in The Telegraph, All Indian Kisan Sangarsh Coordination Committee(AIKSCC) said that Supreme Court doesn't and cannot have any role in resolvingthe deadlock between farm unions and the central government led by Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
AIKSCC on Sunday said that the government should resolvethe deadlock by repealing the laws otherwise they would block all entry ways toDelhi. The Farmers are also going to organize a 'Tractor rally' on Republic Dayof India that falls on Tuesday, January 26.
After AIKSCC gave a call of "Dilli Chalo", manyfarmers' unions thronged to Delhi under the united farmers' march. The farmerunion alleged that the government was taking help of the Supreme Court becauseit could not stand against the corporate unions and repeal what they term as 'blacklaws.'
"The Modi government is shirking the politicalresponsibility of solving the crisis of its own making.....It is misusing theSupreme Court as a political shied," added the AIKSCC.
The Supreme Court in December 2020 had said that farmers'had constitutional right to continue their protest. In December, Chief Justiceof India, S.A Bobde asked in a firm tone about who prevented the farmers' fromentering Delhi to which the Solicitor General of India, Tushar Mehta respondedthat the police have stopped them.
Later on CJI while hearing petitions in December said,"Mr. SG, we see that the petitions are ill-conceived and there are nolegal issues before us. The only party before us who has blocked the road isyou." When one counsel tried to comparethe farmers' situation with Shaheen Bagh protest, the CJI was quick tointerrupt and said, "there can be no precedent in a law and ordersituation."
The farmers had rejected the court route after the interlocutorsof the government suggested them to go to the court. On the other hand the agitatingfarmers under the larger banner of Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) have decided tointensify the protests. Now the focus is on the cases in courts regarding farmlaws and agitating farmers.