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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Silent Majority' Supported the Three Farm Laws: SC-Appointed Committee Report

'Silent Majority' Supported the Three Farm Laws: SC-Appointed Committee Report

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published Published on Mar 21, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 22, 2022

-TheWire.in (with PTI inputs)

Anil Ghanwant, one of the three members of the committee, made the report public on Monday.

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 The three laws have been repealed.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.

Pramod Kumar Joshi, agricultural economist and former director for South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute and Ashok Gulati, agricultural economist and former chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices are the other two members of the committee. Bhupinder Singh Mann, the national president of the Bhartiya Kisan Union and the All India Kisan Coordination Committee, was appointed by the Supreme Court but he chose to recuse himself from being a part of the committee.

Most prominently, the report contends that the repeal of the three farm laws is unfair to the “silent majority” that supported the farm laws. The report states that it extended invitations to 266 farmer organisations, which included those protesting at the periphery of Delhi. Out of the 266 farmer organisations to whom invitations were sent, the committee could directly interact with only 73 organisations. The report claims that out of these 73 organisations, 61 organisations (85.7%) representing over 3.3 crore farmers fully supported the laws. Four farmers’ organisations, representing 51 lakh farmers (13.3%), did not support the Act. Another seven farmer organisations, representing 3.6 lakh farmers (1%) supported the Acts with some suggestions for modifications. 

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TheWire.in, 21 March, 2022, https://thewire.in/agriculture/farm-laws-supreme-court-committee-report-released


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