The Supreme Court-appointed committee on the 3 new farm laws is scheduled to hold its first meeting tomorrow, January 19 at Pusa campus New Delhi, one of its members Anil Ghanwat said on Sunday.
The Supreme Court had on January 11 stayed the implementation of the three laws, against which farmers are protesting at Delhi borders for over 50 days now, till further orders and appointed a four-member panel to resolve the impasse. Bhartiya Kisan Union president Bhupinder Singh Mann, however, recused from the committee last week.
Apart from Ghanwat, agri-economists Ashok Gulati and Pramod Kumar Joshi are the two other panel members. "We are meeting on January 19 at the Pusa campus. Only members will meet to decide the future course of action," Ghanwat, President of Shetkari Sanghatana (Maharashtra), told.
One of the four members has backed out of the committee. If the apex court does not appoint a new member, the existing members will continue, he said. The committee has received the terms of reference and will begin the work from January 21 onwards, he added.
So far, the government has held nine rounds of formal talks with 41 farmer unions but has failed to break the obstruction as the farmer union have stuck to their main demand of a complete repeal of the three Acts.
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