Farm reforms much-needed, repeal won't help: SC panel

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Maharashtra-based Shetkari Sanghatana, Anil Ghanwat, said the farm sector reforms were much needed and no political party in the next 50
years would ever attempt them again if these laws were repealed
He said the panel would listen to all farmers, including those supporting and those opposing the laws, and then prepare a report for the
meeting with the stakeholders had been scheduled for Thursday
So far, nine rounds of talks have also taken place between the government and the agitating unions without any concrete resolution
Bhavan.Ghanwat said the court-appointed committee had decided to listen to the views of the protesting unions on a priority basis, as it
He also said, however, that the laws implemented over the last 70 years were not in the interests of farmers, and 4.5 lakh farmers have
committed suicide
Some changes are needed
Court had on January 11 appointed Ghanwat, Bhartiya Kisan Union president Bhupinder Singh Mann and agricultural economists Ashok Gulati and
Pramod Kumar Joshi as members of a committee to ascertain the views of the stakeholders on the contentious laws.The committee members came
under sharp criticism by the protesting farmers and the Opposition for publicly supporting the new laws
apprehensions amongst the farm unions and the public in general, I am ready to sacrifice any position offered or given to me so as to not
repealed or not
We will hear the government too
The biggest challenge is to convince the agitating farmers to come and speak with us
members
You have taken a view and you are entitled to change your opinion
Generally, there is a peculiar lack of comprehension on the constitution of a committee