Mumbai: Barely four months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of the three farm laws which fanned protests across numerous sites in India, and only a few days after the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly results, the report of the Supreme Court-appointed committee on farm laws has been released in the public domain.
The report states that an overwhelming 85.7% of the farmer organisations the committee directly interacted with lent support to the three controversial farm laws.
The report was released by Anil Jaysingh Ghanwat, president of the Swatantra Bharat Party and the Shetkari Sanghatana, a member in the committee appointed by the Chief Justice’s bench of the Supreme Court in January 2021. The committee was constituted “for the purpose of listening to the grievances of the farmers relating to the farm laws and the views of the government and to make recommendations”.
Ghanwant had in the past written to the Chief Justice of India, asking him to release the report. He had also threatened to release it if the court does not.
“I am releasing this report today. The three laws have been repealed. So there is no relevance now,” Ghanwant said on Monday.
