The Supreme Court will on Tuesday pronounce its order on the three agricultural laws at the centre of the massive farmers’ protest and the agitation itself. The court will continue hearing a batch of petition challenging the laws and the farmers’ round-the-clock sit-ins on the outskirts of Delhi.
During Monday’s hearing, the court said that it was extremely disappointed with the way talks were going on between the Centre and the farmer unions. The court told the government that it will put the laws on hold if the Centre refuses to do so.
Eight rounds of talks with the government has so far failed to mollify the farmers on their demands to repeal the legislations and to provide legal backing for minimum support price system. The ninth round of talks will be held on January 15, after the Supreme Court’s examines the constitutional validity of the laws.
Tens of thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, have been camping out on roads around the Capital, New Delhi,…