MUMBAI: A farmers' crew has taken its combat for upper remuneration and different issues to the Supreme Court, where it has filed a petition challenging an article within the Constitution which it claims is against cultivators.
The Kisaan Putra Andolan (KPA), a motion began in Maharashtra through farmers' activist Amar Habib, filed the petition within the apex court on March 21 in search of abolition of the Constitution's Article 31B and a Schedule under it, while dubbing them as "anti-farmer".
The motion's individuals are of the view that the abolition of Article 31B will pave method for challenging many laws which can be the cause of agrarian disaster within the country.
According to KPA, some of these laws come under the Agricultural Land Ceiling Act, the Essential Commodities Act and the Land Acquisition Act, which are a part of the Constitution's Ninth Schedule.
Notably, laws under the Ninth Schedule are not open to judicial assessment.
Habib, a detailed aide of Shetkari Sanghatana leader overdue Sharad Joshi, said that times have changed and so has the federal government's angle.
Instead of going for side road agitations, KPA has recognized the basis reason behind the agrarian disaster and will remove it with the help of judiciary, he advised reporters here the previous day.
Explaining how they really feel those laws are "anti-farmer", KPA activist Makarand Doijad, who filed the petition in SC, said as according to the Essential Commodities Act, each and every individual has the best to decide the cost of his product, garage capacity and transportation for each and every trade, except for cultivators.
"The central government possesses all these rights with it, it decides prices of agriculture produce and everything related to it," he said.
The government has also limited land holdings of farmers, because of this they cannot own land greater than the made up our minds restrict, Doijad said.
"Article 31B itself is non-constitutional as it violates the right to equality and justice to all citizens of the country since it says that all laws incorporated as part of the Ninth Schedule cannot be challenged in any court of law," he claimed.
Habib said this means farmers cannot challenge those laws which are "draconian in nature".
"If we are able to abolish these laws then the government won't need to provide any farm loan waiver," he said.
The Kisaan Putra Andolan (KPA), a motion began in Maharashtra through farmers' activist Amar Habib, filed the petition within the apex court on March 21 in search of abolition of the Constitution's Article 31B and a Schedule under it, while dubbing them as "anti-farmer".
The motion's individuals are of the view that the abolition of Article 31B will pave method for challenging many laws which can be the cause of agrarian disaster within the country.
According to KPA, some of these laws come under the Agricultural Land Ceiling Act, the Essential Commodities Act and the Land Acquisition Act, which are a part of the Constitution's Ninth Schedule.
Notably, laws under the Ninth Schedule are not open to judicial assessment.
Habib, a detailed aide of Shetkari Sanghatana leader overdue Sharad Joshi, said that times have changed and so has the federal government's angle.
Instead of going for side road agitations, KPA has recognized the basis reason behind the agrarian disaster and will remove it with the help of judiciary, he advised reporters here the previous day.
Explaining how they really feel those laws are "anti-farmer", KPA activist Makarand Doijad, who filed the petition in SC, said as according to the Essential Commodities Act, each and every individual has the best to decide the cost of his product, garage capacity and transportation for each and every trade, except for cultivators.
"The central government possesses all these rights with it, it decides prices of agriculture produce and everything related to it," he said.
The government has also limited land holdings of farmers, because of this they cannot own land greater than the made up our minds restrict, Doijad said.
"Article 31B itself is non-constitutional as it violates the right to equality and justice to all citizens of the country since it says that all laws incorporated as part of the Ninth Schedule cannot be challenged in any court of law," he claimed.
Habib said this means farmers cannot challenge those laws which are "draconian in nature".
"If we are able to abolish these laws then the government won't need to provide any farm loan waiver," he said.
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