A large section of India’s farmers and Narendra Modi-led BJP government continue to remain at loggerheads after India’s Supreme Court issued an order Jan. 12 to New Delhi to “put on hold the implementation of agricultural reform laws and ordered the creation of an independent committee of experts to negotiate with farmers who have been protesting against the legislation,” Associated Press reported yesterday. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of farmers, protesting for more than six weeks, will continue to block half a dozen major highways on the outskirts of New Delhi.
Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde said an independent committee of four experts will be set up to resolve the crisis. Farmers’ unions have rejected the idea of setting up an expert committee, saying it would be a loaded dice.
