New Farm Acts Will Pave Way For Cartelization And Commercialization Of The Agricultural Produce: Bhartiya Kisan Union Bhanu Moves Supreme Court Challenging The New Acts
(Judicial Quest News Network)
The Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) has filed a petition in Apex Court Challenging the new Farm Acts, seeking to intervene as a party in a pending plea challenging the constitutional validity of legislation
The Petitioners contended that That petitioner is challenging the 3 new laws The Farmers (Empowerment and have been are Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, The Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
These Acts are illegal and arbitrary, because, these acts would pave way for cartelization and commercialization of the agriculture produces and if allow to stand, we are going to completely ruin our country as the corporates can, with one stroke, export our agriculture produce without any regulation and may even result in famines.
The farmers group has further contended that the above said laws as unconstitutional, anti-former as per these laws’ formers position is vulnerable to corporate greed of multinational companies. That these laws would dismantle the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) system intended to insure fair prices for form products.
Till date many talks were held with farmers and Union Government but no fruitful results have been yielded.
Petitioners further contended that these laws are passed “hastily without having an adequate discusiion”and a bare reading of the provisions would indicate that their implementation in current from will be disastrous and pave the way for exploitation of farmers’
Presently the Agricultural produce market committee had been acting as a “protective shield around farmers “and due to the new laws, “the market would ultimately fall to the corporate greed of multinational companies”.
Earlier the Apex Court had agreed to test the constitutional validity of these laws without acceding to the interim pleas of some of the petitioner.
Last Month RJD Leader Jha, who had filed the plea through Lawyer Fauzia Shakeel had said that The Impugned legislations corporatizes agriculture and ushers in an unregulated and exploitative regime. A farmer would not have the knowledge to negotiate the best terms with a private company. This leads to unequal bargaining position in negotiating the farm agreement with corporates would lead to corporates monopolizing the agriculture sector.
DMK MP Siva also raised similar issues against the farm laws and said they “are prima facie unconstitutional, illegal and arbitrary”.It was contended in his petition that Acts are Anti-farmer, brought out during the COVID-19 pandemic to benefit few corporations who are close to the corridors of powers.
