Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lok Shakti) moved the Supreme Court currently difficult the three new farm rules, versus which different farmer unions are staging protest at several border points of Delhi, and sought impleadment in the make a difference pending in the apex court.
Enacted in September, the three farm rules have been projected by the central government as significant reforms in the agriculture sector that would take out the middlemen and enable farmers to market wherever in the country.
Even so, the protesting farmers have expressed apprehension that the new rules would pave the way for the elimination of the basic safety cushion of Minimum Support Rate and do absent with the mandi procedure, leaving them at the mercy of big corporate players.
The government has regularly asserted that the MSP and Mandi techniques will stay and has accused the Opposition of deceptive farmers.