New Delhi Mar 21 PTI A Supreme Court-appointed panel to study the three farm laws which was scrapped by Parliament in November last year had recommended that the three legislations should not be repealed saying they would be beneficial for farmers The report which was submitted to the apex court on March 19 2021 was made public on Monday The three-member committee had also suggested many changes in the laws including giving freedom to states to make Minimum Support Price MSP system legal Anil Ghanwat one of the members of the panel released the findings of the report at a press conference in the national capital On March 19 2021 we submitted the report to the Supreme Court We wrote letters to the apex court three times requesting it to release the report But we did not get any response Ghanwat who is the President of Swatantra Bharat Party said I am releasing this report today The three laws have been repealed So there is no relevance now he said According to him the report would help in making policies for the agriculture sector in future Ghanwat said the committee has said in its report that a repeal or a long suspension of these laws would be unfair to the silent majority who support the farm laws Out of the 73 farmer organisations that made submission to the committee 61 representing 33 crore farmers supported the farm laws he noted Further Ghanwat said 40 unions which had organised agitations against the laws under the banner of Samyukt Kisan Morcha SKM did not make any submission despite repeated requests The two other members of the committee are Ashok Gulati agri-economist and former Chairman of Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices and Pramod Kumar Joshi also an agri-economist On November 19 Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation announced the withdrawal of the three farm laws saying the government could not convince protesting farmers about the benefits of the agriculture sector reforms The three laws -- Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce Promotion and Facilitation Act The Farmers Empowerment and Protection Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act and The Essential Commodities Amendment Act -- were repealed The repealing of the three farm legislations was one of the key demands of around 40 farmer unions protesting against these reforms at Delhi borders The protest started at the fag-end of November 2020 and ended after Parliament repealed the three laws The legislations had come into force in June 2020 and was repealed in November 2021 PTI MJH NKD RAM

New Delhi Dec 26 PTI Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Sunday said the government has no plan to bring back the recently repealed farm laws and urged farmers to be wary of confusion being created by the Congress on this issue Tomar in a statement said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had decided to withdraw agriculture reform laws to protect the interest of farmers The government has no plan to bring the repealed agriculture laws again Congress is indulging in a negative work of spreading confusion to cover up its failures Tomar said and asked farmers to beware of this In his address to the nation on November 19 Modi had announced withdrawal of the three controversial farm laws in a bid to end a year-long massive protest by farmers at the borders of the national capital These laws were passed in Parliament in September 2020 but the Supreme Court had stayed their roll out in March 2021 and finally were repealed on November 29 by passing a bill due to mounting pressure from protesting farmers These three laws were The Farmers Empowerment and Protection Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020 The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce Promotion and Facilitation Act 2020 and The Essential Commodities Amendment Act 2020 PTI LUX MR MR

New Delhi [India], December 10 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP and former National President of Rashtriya Kisan Morcha Vijaypal Singh Tomar on Thursday hit out at Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait for taking a 'U-turn' on farm laws.

New Delhi: The cancellation of farm laws will be one of the prime talking points at the all-party meeting today that is likely to be helmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a day before the beginning of the Winter Session of Parliament. The meeting – which will also likely see price rise issue and the farmers’ demand on legal guarantee on Minimum Support Prices being raised – is set to begin at 11 am.

New Delhi: The cancellation of farm laws will be one of the prime talking points at the all-party meeting today that is likely to be helmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a day before the beginning of the Winter Session of Parliament. The meeting – which will also likely see price rise issue and the farmers’ demand on legal guarantee on Minimum Support Prices being raised – is set to begin at 11 am.

New Delhi: The cancellation of farm laws will be one of the prime talking points at the all-party meeting today that is likely to be helmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a day before the beginning of the Winter Session of Parliament. The meeting – which will also likely see price rise issue and the farmers’ demand on legal guarantee on Minimum Support Prices being raised – is set to begin at 11 am.

New Delhi: The cancellation of farm laws will be one of the prime talking points at the all-party meeting today that is likely to be helmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a day before the beginning of the Winter Session of Parliament. The meeting – which will also likely see price rise issue and the farmers’ demand on legal guarantee on Minimum Support Prices being raised – is set to begin at 11 am.

New Delhi: The cancellation of farm laws will be one of the prime talking points at the all-party meeting today that is likely to be helmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a day before the beginning of the Winter Session of Parliament. The meeting – which will also likely see price rise issue and the farmers’ demand on legal guarantee on Minimum Support Prices being raised – is set to begin at 11 am.

New Delhi [India], November 27 (ANI): A meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture was adjourned on Friday due to a lack of quorum. Only six out of 29 MPs turned up for the meeting which was supposed to be briefed on 'doubling of farmers' income.

New Delhi [India], November 20 (ANI): Farmers' leader Dr Darshan Pal on Saturday said that the Centre's announcement of rolling back of the three contentious farm laws shows that the government is on the back foot due to the ongoing protest.