Farmer Union Goes To Supreme Court, Wants "Arbitrary" Farm Laws Scrapped

Saturday, 12 December 2020Newsdesk

The Bhartiya Kisan Union has filed a petition in the Supreme Court asking it to scrap three agricultural laws passed by Parliament in September. Thousands of farmers have over the past few weeks been protesting against these laws, demanding that the government repeal them.

New Delhi, 12 December 2020

As per news report of NDTV, the Bhartiya Kisan Union's petition, filed by its president Bhanu Pratap Singh, claimed that the three laws will lead to commercialisation and will throw the farmers at the mercy of corporates. Citing the ongoing farmers' protest along the national capital's borders, it said a "rail roko" agitation, too, would begin soon.

Source -NDTV