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“In my view, the law cannot be put in abeyance by the government,” says P.D.T. Such an option, however, could have opened the government to the charge of further undermining Parliament.

While official sources maintain that one option before it was to issue a notification cancelling the earlier gazette notification and that it just needs an executive order (the government does not even have to go to Parliament), but that is easier said than done. Experts point out that, while Parliament can repeal or dilute the law, there is no provision in the Constitution or Parliamentary procedure for keeping a law in abeyance. The farm laws, passed by Parliament in September last year, were notified in the official gazette on 27 September after President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent.

Farm unions rejected the proposal, saving the government from what could have been future embarrassment.Įxperts have raised questions over how the government could have even made this proposal. Recently, to bring the agitating farmers to the negotiating table, the government offered to keep the farm laws in abeyance for 18 months. The latest one heard on the citizenship law was on 20 December, when home minister Amit Shah said that the rules of CAA are yet to be framed and the law will become operational after Covid vaccine inoculation is done. CAA started a wave of agitation across the country in the winter of 2019 and led to the riots in Delhi. However, the government is yet to notify the rules for the law to be implemented. Parliamentary procedure dictates that the rules for the legislation are to be notified within six months from the date of publication in the gazette. As a result, Parliamentary procedure and well-established traditions becomes a casualty.ĬAA was passed by both Houses of Parliament in December 2019, and was notified in the official gazette in January 2020. Executive Editor, Business IndiaĪs with the Citizenship Amendment Act, which the government rammed through Parliament last winter, the government appears to be tying itself up in knots over the new farm reform laws this time around as well.