<p>Commenting on the resignation of farmer leader Bhupinder Singh Mann from the four-member panel set up by the Supreme Court to review farm laws, senior Congress leader B K Chandrashekar said that it was in response to the perception that the panel was not 'independent'.</p>.<p>All four have publicly supported the farm laws on different grounds, Chandrashekar said, noting that two of them were "office-bearers of farmers’ unions, but not part of the protest. In what sense then is it an 'independent' panel? How will other "sensible" and reputed experts testify before a panel whose credibility in public perception has come under cloud?" he said.</p>.<p>The Supreme Court, he said, perhaps had two options once it "decided to step into the policy domain: to appoint those who, at least, had not taken a public stand on the laws or to have two supporters and two who were not in favour of the laws, and have a credible person head the panel, given that its report was not binding," he said in a statement.</p>
<p>Commenting on the resignation of farmer leader Bhupinder Singh Mann from the four-member panel set up by the Supreme Court to review farm laws, senior Congress leader B K Chandrashekar said that it was in response to the perception that the panel was not 'independent'.</p>.<p>All four have publicly supported the farm laws on different grounds, Chandrashekar said, noting that two of them were "office-bearers of farmers’ unions, but not part of the protest. In what sense then is it an 'independent' panel? How will other "sensible" and reputed experts testify before a panel whose credibility in public perception has come under cloud?" he said.</p>.<p>The Supreme Court, he said, perhaps had two options once it "decided to step into the policy domain: to appoint those who, at least, had not taken a public stand on the laws or to have two supporters and two who were not in favour of the laws, and have a credible person head the panel, given that its report was not binding," he said in a statement.</p>
