Farm Acts will "corporatise" agriculture & "exploit farmers": Bharatiya Kisan Union files impleadment application in Supreme Court

The three new farm acts, which have triggered protests by farmers in Punjab and Haryana, will "corporatise agriculture" and result in exploitation of farmers, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) stated in their impleadment application filed before the Supreme Court challenging the new laws..The BKU has assailed Farmers (Empowerment & Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance & Farm Services Act 2020, Farmers Produce Trade & Commerce (Promotion & Facilitation) Act & Amendment to Essential Commodities Act as illegal, arbitrary and unconstitutional. ."They will pave the way for cartelization and commercialization of agriculture produced and if allowed to stand will completely ruin our country as the corporates can, with one stroke, export our agriculture produce without any regulation," the plea filed through advocate AP Singh said..Farmers' Acts: Now DMK MP from Tamil Nadu, Tiruchi Siva, moves Supreme Court assailing the newly passed farmers' laws.The farmers group has further contended that the laws passed are "unconstitutional" and "anti-farmer," as it would dismantle the Agriculture Produce Market Committee system intended to ensure fair prices for farm products. "These laws if implemented in current form will spell disaster for the farming community by opening a parallel market which is unregulated and gives enough space for exploitation of Indian farmers," reads the application. .Constitutionality of the Farm Acts: Testing the soil beneath.The plea states that inherent weakness of agriculture cannot be addressed by way of monetization of farmers. .The impleadment application has been moved in the lead case filed by DMK Member of Parliament, Tiruchi Shiva. .These laws have been assailed in the lead petition on the grounds of being "llegal and wholly unconstitutional" with the petition stating that the Acts are "anti-farmer and anti-agriculturists" and brought in at a time when the country is grappling with a pandemic with the sole intention to benefit big corporates..President signs the farm bill, Farmers Act comes into force [Download Legislations].Moreover, the primary contention of the petitioner is that the Parliament enacted the two new Farmers' laws despite the subject matter for the same being under the State list. It is, therefore, against the principles of federalism and ultra vires Article 246 of the Constitution..A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde had issued notice in the petitions in October and the matter is likely to be taken up after winter vacation.