‘90% of farmers not in favour of continuing agitation after Supreme Court ruling’
New Delhi: Terming the Indian Supreme Court’s order staying the implementation of the three farm laws as “a historic step,” the Bar Council Of India (BCI) has said that 90 per cent of “peaceful farmers” are not in favour of continuing the agitation.
“Everybody knows that 90 per cent of the peace-loving farmers are not in favour of the continuance of agitation after the stay order of Supreme Court, but persons with vested interests are trying to fulfill their own political ambition even at the cost of de-stablising the country,” Manan Kumar Mishra, Chairman of Bar Council of India said in a statement on Wednesday. Mr Mishra said that the prudent citizens of the country should appreciate the order of the Supreme Court in the matter of farmers’ agitation.
“The step which our Apex Court has taken is a historic step and it is in the interest of the nation. The order of the Supreme Court firstly aims at saving the lives of agitating farmers, the elderly people, women, children from the harsh cold and weather conditions and COVID-19. The order has been passed in the background of the death of elderly people, who lost their lives due to prolonged agitation and severe cold and by suicide,” he said.
“The Supreme Court has stayed the implementation and operation of the three laws which are being opposed by the farmers and now the farmers should suspend their agitation,” he added.
Mr Mishra recalled that the whole legal fraternity had opposed in one voice the clause in the agrarian legislation which made the subdivisional magistrate/ additional district magistrate the adjudicatory authority under the new farm laws and supported the demand of the agitating farmers.