The Supreme Court of India will today hear a clutch of petitions regarding farmers' agitation and contentious farm laws that have triggered nationwide and indefinite protests on the borders of the capital city.
According to a lead story published in The Telegraph, All Indian Kisan Sangarsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) said that Supreme Court doesn't and cannot have any role in resolving the deadlock between farm unions and the central government led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
AIKSCC on Sunday said that the government should resolve the deadlock by repealing the laws otherwise they would block all entry ways to Delhi. The Farmers are also going to organize a 'Tractor rally' on Republic Day of India that falls on Tuesday, January 26.
After AIKSCC gave a call of "Dilli Chalo", many farmers' unions thronged to Delhi under the united farmers' march. The farmer union alleged that the government was taking help of the Supreme Court because it could not stand against the corporate unions and repeal what they term as 'black laws.'
"The Modi government is shirking the political responsibility of solving the crisis of its own making.....It is misusing the Supreme Court as a political shied," added the AIKSCC.
The Supreme Court in December 2020 had said that farmers' had constitutional right to continue their protest. In December, Chief Justice of India, S.A Bobde asked in a firm tone about who prevented the farmers' from entering Delhi to which the Solicitor General of India, Tushar Mehta responded that the police have stopped them.
Later on CJI while hearing petitions in December said, "Mr. SG, we see that the petitions are ill-conceived and there are no legal issues before us. The only party before us who has blocked the road is you." When one counsel tried to compare the farmers' situation with Shaheen Bagh protest, the CJI was quick to interrupt and said, "there can be no precedent in a law and order situation."
The farmers had rejected the court route after the interlocutors of the government suggested them to go to the court. On the other hand the agitating farmers under the larger banner of Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) have decided to intensify the protests. Now the focus is on the cases in courts regarding farm laws and agitating farmers.