Constitution and legal experts said on Friday that the government will have to bring a bill in Parliament to repeal three agriculture laws, which were at the center of farmers’ protests for the past one year. Prime Minister in his address to the nation Narendra Modi It said three agricultural laws would be repealed and the constitutional process required to do so would be completed in the winter session of Parliament that begins later this month.
“For repeal, the power of Parliament is the same as to make laws under the Constitution,” explained former Union Law Secretary PK Malhotra. The government will have to bring a bill to repeal the three laws. “There is no other way,” said former Lok Sabha Secretary General PDT Acharya.
Responding to a question, Acharya said the government can repeal all the three laws through a single repeal bill. He said that in the Statement of Objects and Reasons for the Bill, the government may mention the reasons why it intends to repeal the three laws.
“When a repeal bill is passed, it is also a law,” Malhotra said. The three agriculture laws have not been implemented, but the fact that they are laws passed by Parliament that have got the assent of the President, Malhotra said, that they can be repealed by Parliament alone.
Addressing the nation on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, Modi asserted that laws are for the benefit of farmers and then apologized to the people of the country, saying the government, despite its clear heart and clear conscience, did not protect a section of farmers. I could refuse “I have come to inform you that we have decided to repeal three agriculture laws. We will complete the constitutional process of repeal of three agricultural laws in the upcoming session of Parliament that begins later this month. The Price Assurance and Compromise of Agricultural Services Act, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act are the three laws.
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