Summary:
BY DN SINGH
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The situation doesn`t appear as easy as it appears to be, that, the people in power at the centre can let the tempestuous angst of the farmer`s agitation die down under any rigidly that is purportedly being played out.
It is one of the major issues before the nation in addition to the challenge from the pandemic.
What is required on the part of both sides is a semblance of cool and of course composure.
The face-off has really turned hard and harder it can be at a time when few days after the top leaders may again raise the slogan of ` Jai Jawan Jai Kissan`, while the landscape near Delhi may turn red with a clash of people and the powerful.
Coming Republic Day celebrations may invite a situation when, amid the cheers, the protest marches by farmers should not paint the landscape with anything inauspicious.
The resolve by the agitating farmers has reached the boiling point when there is the need for mature handling of the tempers of the farmers and the political dispensation.
Neglect Too Stretching
Farmers are a community that has been facing the brunt of importance for last many decades.
It is not a case of any particular political dispensation that can be attributed playing foul on the interests of farmers but the neglect far too overstretched.
Even today, after the passing of the recent bill it cannot be seen in isolation regardless of what is going on when both sides are unable to hammer a middle path.
However, the Supreme Court’s observations clearly indicate at some kind of attitude of the central government where the sense of an urgency is missing.
The apex court has dubbed the delay in striking a solution as “extremely disappointing” and even went to the extent of saying that, if the government is not able to resolve the issue and end the impasse then, the court itself can volunteer to do that.
It is something that sounds, in a way, like an assault on the rigidity on the part of the Centre.
Court Must Play A Decisive Role
One thing is clear that the constitution of a committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge can also be an option and that seems possible.