Land ordinance: Farmer’s groups move Supreme Court

The petition has been filed by Delhi Grameen Samaj, Bharatiya Kisan Union and two other farmers’ groups.

A group of farmers’ associations moved the Supreme Court Thursday, challenging the constitutional validity of the land acquisition ordinance by the NDA government.

Alleging that the ordinance was a fraud on the Constitution, the groups urged the court to quash the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015, promulgated on April 3.

“Merely because it does not have numbers in the Rajya Sabha, the executive cannot be permitted to continue the law making exercise by way of an ordinance.

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It is submitted that the life and liberty of citizens cannot be regulated by ordinances and the executive cannot indirectly arrogate to itself the law making function of the legislature,” the petition settled by former Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising stated. The petition has been filed by Delhi Grameen Samaj, Bharatiya Kisan Union and two other farmers’ groups.

It questioned the manner in which Rajya Sabha was prorogued solely with the view to enable the executive to successively re-issue the ordinance.

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