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Express REPORT,PAGE5 Tuesdayput on hold, until further orders, the implementation of the three laws and namedacommit- teetosuggest—intwo months — Farmer leaders at Delhi’s Singhu border afterthe Supreme Courtorder Tuesday. AbhinavSaha what changes, if any, were Vaccines hit the road, over 50 lakh neededafter it listens to all sides. This interim order by abench headedbyChief Justice of India S Most on SC committee Farm unions ABobde andcomprisingJustices doses are shipped across India ASBopanna and V have backed farm laws, welcome Ramasubramanian, echoed what the courthad said Monday. rations forthe mass inoculation Lucknow, leftPune at 2.10 pm. Guwahati, Ahmedabad, Shillong, Claiming that negotiations called protests misguided stay but PRANAVMUKUL,PRABHA drive againstthe novelcoron- By 4pm, 54.72lakh doses of Hyderabad, Vijayawada, between the farmers and the RAGHAVAN,ANURADHA avirus that begins on Saturday. the vaccine had reachedstores Bhubaneswar,Bengaluru, Patna, government had been fruitless, reject panel: MASCARENHAS The firstconsignment of 2.64 around the country, the Health Lucknow, and Chandigarh. the courtsaid a“committee of UDITMISRA &ATIKHRASHID lakh doses of the vaccine took off Ministrysaid at abriefing in the Atotal 477boxes of vaccine experts”to“negotiatebetween NEWDELHI,JANUARY12 NEWDELHI,PUNE,JANUARY12 forDelhi on aSpiceJetflight soon evening. cargo,eachweighing 32 kg,were the farmers’ bodies and the it’s pro-Govt after8am, landing in the na- In the morning, Civil Aviation shippedout, officials in Pune Government of India maycreate DECLARINGTHEY will notpar- ABOUT HALF acrore doses of tional capital alittle before 10 MinisterHardeep Singh Puri had said. In the evening, SII CEO Adar acongenial atmosphereand im- ticipateinany court-ordered Serum InstituteofIndia’s (SII’s) am. AGoAir flight to Chennai postedonTwitter that the four Poonawalla tweetedapictureof provethe trustand confidence committee process, the All India ARANYASHANKAR& Covishieldvaccine were shipped and an Air India flight to carriers would operatenine alarge group of the company’s of the farmers”. Kisan Sangharsh Coordination RAAKHIJAGGA out of Pune to cities across India Ahmedabad followed. The last flightsfromPune to ferry56.5 employees with the message: It addedthat astayof“imple- Committee has said the mem- NEWDELHI,LUDHIANA, on Tuesdayasthe country flight of the daywith the vaccine lakh doses of the vaccine to “An emotional moment forthe mentation of all the three farm bers of the committee namedby JANUARY12 launchedits final phase of prepa- cargo,anIndiGo flight to Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, CONTINUEDONPAGE4 laws”may “assuagethe hurt the apexcourt“arepeople who feelings” of protesting farmers areknown fortheir supportto WELCOMINGTHE suspension of and encouragethem to come to the three Acts and have actively the newlyenacted agriculture the negotiating table with “con- advocated forthe same”. laws,farmer unions opposedto Law catches up 14 yrs on, With BJP seeking foot fidence” and in “good faith”. There’s good reason why. (Clockwise from topleft) the laws announcedTuesdaythat It wastohelp arrive at a“fair, All four members have pub- Gulati,Mann, Joshi, Ghanwat theywould notparticipateinthe SC orders demolition of equitable and justsolution,” the liclybeen in favour of the farm consultation process to be initi- in Andhra door, TDP courtsaid, that it wasstaying the laws and none of them has sup- ated by afour-member commit- implementation of the laws,a portedthe demands forrepeal- in their viewthat the farm laws teeappointed by the Supreme illegal Mcleodganj hotel move AttorneyGeneral KK ing them.Three of the four be- will benefit the farmers im- Courttoresolve the standoff. takes aHindutva turn Venugopal Mondayhad called lieve the protesting farmers are mensely. The unions maintainedthey “drastic”. misguided; theyare unanimous CONTINUEDONPAGE4 would onlysettle forthe repeal JAYMAZOOMDAAR The three laws are: Farmers’ of the laws,and their protest NEWDELHI,JANUARY12 SREENIVASJANYALA WhyNaidu Produce Trade and Commerce would continue until that de- HYDERABAD,JANUARY12 ischanging (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, Court enters uncharted mand wasmet —lawyers who THEFATEofafive-storey, 40- E 2020; Essential Commodities represented the unions Monday, ● hispolitics room hotel, built illegally“by ROUTED IN Assemblyaswell as EXPLAINED (Amendment) Act, 2020; and Dushyant Dave,HSPhoolka, and throwing intothe air the statu- Parliamentaryelections in 2019, CONTINUEDONPAGE4 territory; in Aadhaar, poll Colin Gonsalves, were notpres- tory provisions of law” in con- and with the BharatiyaJanata TO BE politicallyrelevant ent in the Supreme Court nivance with officials of multi- Partytrying to getafoothold in and staveoff the BJP,the Tuesdaywhen the order wasde- ple government agencies, on The hotelcame up on land the state, NChandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Partyled BUSINESSASUSUAL bonds, took another stand livered.