# Farm Laws Repeal Act receives presidential assent

Date: 2021

## The fact

On 1 December 2021 the Farm Laws Repeal Act, 2021 received presidential assent after both Houses passed it on 29 November, repealing the three September 2020 farm laws.

## Context

Modi had announced the political decision on 19 November 2021. Parliament wrote the repeal. Farmers’ unions had protested for a year. He owned both the original laws and the repeal.

The 27 September 2020 assent is the neighbouring earlier cluster. A statutory MSP guarantee was not this repeal.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Press Information Bureau of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is political polarisation and food-price risk: a completed repeal after protest is a dated de-escalation and restoration of the prior farm-trade baseline.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 1 December 2021 presidential assent repealing the three 2020 farm laws after a 29 November parliamentary passage.

Not established: a statutory MSP guarantee, or a unique later farm-income coefficient from assent day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Parliament passed the bill. The President assented.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Farm Laws Repeal Act receives presidential assent, not a later speech about Farm Laws Repeal Act receives presidential assent.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Farm Laws Repeal Act receives presidential assent on 2021-12-01 is not a licence to treat every later Press Information Bureau of India communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Farm Laws Repeal Act receives presidential assent into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He announced the repeal decision. Parliament passed the bill. The President assented. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

## People

- Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization
- Food-Price Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/food-price-pressure

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-repeal-contentious-farm-laws-2021-11-19/
- https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1777331

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/in-farm-laws-repeal-2021