Article 13 (2) of Indian constitution: This prohibits the State from enacting any law that takes away or abridges the fundamental rights conferred by Part III of the Constitution. 

In case of farm laws, without analyzing or justifying if the laws violated fundamental rights, the Apex court simply stayed it. What happened? The execution of the laws were paused and Govt had to withdraw them due to an indefinite stay on the execution.

Similarly in case of Wakf act, the Apex court simply stayed some important part of laws, without analyzing if the law violated the fundamental rights, thereby hindering the implementation.

The laws were framed by the parliament where hundreds of MPs debated. Tens of MPs and senior government officials drafted the law.

The framers of our constitution wanted a balance between powers of Legislature (Parliament), Executive (PM, Cabinet and Officials) and Judiciary (Courts).

By just pausing the laws without any reason, the Apex court is hence violating the basic structure of our constitution i.e. “balance of power” and “division of power”, between legislature, executive and judiciary and trying to center all power to itself.

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