The
Supreme Court on Thursday said it would soon constitute a multi-member
committee to amicably resolve the grievances of farmers "for all
times".
A
bench of Justice Surya Kant, Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan,
which posted the matter for further hearing on September 2, asked the Punjab
and Haryana governments to give tentative issues concerning farmers to the
committee.
The Punjab government
informed the top court that in compliance with the August 12 order of the apex
court, they held a meeting with the protesting farmers in which they had agreed
to partially open the blocked highway.
The
bench asked the Punjab and Haryana governments to keep engaging with protesting
farmers and persuade them to remove their tractors and trollies from the
highway.
On
August 12, the top court asked the Punjab government to persuade the farmers
protesting at the Shambhu border since February 13 to remove tractors and
trollies from the road, saying that "highways are not parking space".
The
court was hearing the Haryana government's plea challenging the high court's
order asking it to remove within a week the barricades erected at the Shambhu
border near Ambala where protesting farmers have been camping since February
13.
The Haryana government
had set up barricades on the Ambala-New Delhi national highway in February
after the 'Samyukta Kisan Morcha' (Non-Political) and 'Kisan Mazdoor Morcha'
announced that farmers would march to Delhi in support of their demands,
including legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) for their produce.