The Central Government has happily filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in favor of agricultural laws.


The Supreme Court will rule on petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the central government's agricultural laws on Tuesday. The case was heard at length in the Supreme Court on Monday in which the court expressed its displeasure with the central government. The court sternly said that the government has passed a law of consultation which has resulted in the farmers sitting on dharna for more than a month.



Now that the hearing is over on Monday, the government has hastily filed an affidavit and dismissed allegations by protesting farmers that the government and parliament did not follow any consultative process before passing the bill. 

Kisan Andolan: Can a solution be found through the Supreme Court?

Farmers have been protesting on the borders of Delhi against the recently passed new agricultural laws for the last three weeks. After several rounds of talks between the farmers' organizations and the government, no solution has been found and now with the help of some public interest petitions, the matter has reached the Supreme Court.



During the hearing of the petitions, the Supreme Court, while acknowledging the right of the farmers to 'right to protest', said that it must also be seen that it should not violate the rights of other people as well. During the hearing, Chief Justice SA Bobde said, "We have sympathy with the farmers but some solution has to be found."
Even before the hearing began on Thursday, the Supreme Court had made it clear that it would not be hearing the validity of the law at the moment, but on the roads blocked by the movement and its impact on the rights of citizens.
Advocates for the central government in the case argued that the protesters had blocked the roads leading to Delhi, which had pushed up the prices of milk, fruits and vegetables. The case is being heard by a joint bench of Chief Justice SA Bobade, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramaniam.