Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov.23: Anil Ghanwat, a member of the Supreme Court committee on farm rules, petitioned the court to reveal the panel’s report on Tuesday.
“After the Government’s decision to repeal the farm laws in the coming Winter Session of the Parliament, the Committee’s report is no longer relevant with regard to those laws but there are suggestions in the report on farmers’ issues that are of great public interest,” Ghanwat said in a letter to the Chief Justice of India, N V Ramana.
“The report can also play an educational role and ease the misapprehensions of many farmers who have, in my opinion, been misguided by some leaders who do not seem to appreciate how a minimally regulated free market can allocate national resources to their most productive use,” he added.
Ghanwat also asked the Supreme Court to order the government to create a rigorous policy procedure in the letter.
“We should have a policy that is in the interest of farmers and does not distort the market,” Ghanwat said during a press conference on Tuesday.
Ghanwat, a senior leader of Shetkari Sanghatana, stated that he would travel across the country in the next 2-3 months, gathering over 1 lakh farmers in favour of agricultural reforms. He went on to say that the demand for a guarantee of the minimum support price is now unfeasible.
The Supreme Court established a commission to investigate three farm laws on January 12 this year, while postponing their implementation. On March 13, 2021, the committee filed its findings, although it has yet to be made public. Ghanwat wrote to the Chief Justice of India on September 7 this year, demanding that the report be made public and forwarded to the Centre.
