Four farmers groups have filed a petition in the Supreme Court against promulgation of Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency In  Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015. 

In the petition it is stated that promulgating the ordinance by the President on April 3 is a text book example of blatant abuse of President’s power and proroguing the Rajya Sabha on March 28 was a clever device and ruse adopted by the government which subverts the legislative process of the Rajya Sabha. Seeking the apex court to declare the ordinance unconstitutional the petition said ” Lack of political will or the fear of the executive of getting defeated on the floor of the House is not a ground for exercise of power under article 123 (Power of the President to promulgate ordinance during recess of Parliament.

Asking the Supreme Court to call for the entire paper trail leading to the promulgation, the petition alleged that a fraud had been played on the Constitution. This ordinance does not even indicate what is the extra ordinary situation necessitating it.

                                                                                                      (courtacy: The Hindu)        

Almost all political parties barring BJP are opposed to the ordinance bypassing the Parliament which contains provisions to deny the farmers their legitimate rights guaranteed to a certain extent in the Land Bill brought out by the earlier UPA government.