Supreme
Court-appointed panel was against repealing 3 farm laws
New
Delhi, 21.2.2022, Monday
A Supreme Court-appointed
panel to study the three farm laws, which was scrapped by Parliament in
November last year, had recommended that the three legislations should not be
repealed saying they would be beneficial to farmers.
The report, which was
submitted to the apex court on March 19, 2021, was made public on Monday.
The three-member committee had
also suggested many changes in the laws, including giving freedom to states to
make Minimum Support Price (MSP) system legal.
Anil Ghanwat, one of the
members of the panel, released the findings of the report at a press conference
in the national capital.
"On March 19, 2021, we
submitted the report to the Supreme Court. We wrote letters to the apex court
three times requesting it to release the report. But we did not get any
response," Ghanwat, who is the president of Swatantra Bharat Party, said.
"I am releasing this
report today. The three laws have been repealed. So there is no relevance
now," he said.
According to him, the report
would help in making policies for the agriculture sector in future.
Ghanwat said the committee had
said in its report that a "repeal or a long suspension of these laws would
be unfair to the silent majority who support the farm laws".
Out of the 73 farmer
organisations that made submissions to the committee, 61 representing 3.3 crore
farmers supported the farm laws, he noted.