NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday asked the Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab government to persuade protesting farmers at the Shambhu border to remove tractors from road.
The top court said highways are not parking space and noted that partial opening of road at Shambhu border needed for facilitating movement of ambulances, essential services and local commuters.
It further directed Punjab and Haryana DGPs to meet in a week along with SPs of adjoining districts for partial reopening of roads at Shambhu border.
During the hearing, the court said it will pass brief order on terms of panel to be constituted for talking to protesting farmers at Shambhu border.
The court also appreciated Punjab and Haryana governments for suggesting apolitical names for proposed panel for talking to protesting farmers at Shambhu border, according to news agency PTI.
Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) are in no rush to abandon their second protest march to Delhi and turn back from Punjab and Haryana’s Shambhu and Khanauri borders without a legal right to minimum support price (MSP) for all the crops based on the formula of comprehensive cost (C2) plus 50% profit.
They had left home to assemble in Delhi on February 13, but anticipating trouble, Haryana Police had barricaded the Shambhu and Khanauri borders and bombarded them with teargas shells from drone to stop their convoy at the gates, where the farmers have now camped, even though their count has thinned.
Fellow farmer unionist Sarvan Singh Pandher of the KMM said: “The govt’s attitude has made us resume our struggle. We gave it ample time to respond, yet its ministers who had four rounds of talks with us gave us no legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) and tried to deflect the public’s attention by offering us MSP on 5 crops for 5 years on experimental basis. We are ready to sit at the borders for any number of weeks or months, but we won’t compromise.”
The top court said highways are not parking space and noted that partial opening of road at Shambhu border needed for facilitating movement of ambulances, essential services and local commuters.
It further directed Punjab and Haryana DGPs to meet in a week along with SPs of adjoining districts for partial reopening of roads at Shambhu border.
During the hearing, the court said it will pass brief order on terms of panel to be constituted for talking to protesting farmers at Shambhu border.
The court also appreciated Punjab and Haryana governments for suggesting apolitical names for proposed panel for talking to protesting farmers at Shambhu border, according to news agency PTI.
Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) are in no rush to abandon their second protest march to Delhi and turn back from Punjab and Haryana’s Shambhu and Khanauri borders without a legal right to minimum support price (MSP) for all the crops based on the formula of comprehensive cost (C2) plus 50% profit.
They had left home to assemble in Delhi on February 13, but anticipating trouble, Haryana Police had barricaded the Shambhu and Khanauri borders and bombarded them with teargas shells from drone to stop their convoy at the gates, where the farmers have now camped, even though their count has thinned.
Fellow farmer unionist Sarvan Singh Pandher of the KMM said: “The govt’s attitude has made us resume our struggle. We gave it ample time to respond, yet its ministers who had four rounds of talks with us gave us no legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) and tried to deflect the public’s attention by offering us MSP on 5 crops for 5 years on experimental basis. We are ready to sit at the borders for any number of weeks or months, but we won’t compromise.”
