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Beyond farm laws repeal lies the real crisis in farming -Himanshu

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We do need reforms to make farming remunerative again but it will take a truly participatory effort

On 19 November, in a sudden announcement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the withdrawal of three contentious farm laws passed by Parliament last September. And they were repealed on the very first day that the House convened for its winter session. Like the way they were passed last year, the repeal was also done without any discussion. So, why they were introduced and rescinded remains off the record.

Their repeal was a foregone conclusion before they went through the parliamentary process. The laws had anyway been held in abeyance after the Supreme Court stayed their implementation. But the fact that the government violated its own commitment to the three laws was evident in its blatant use of the Essential Commodities Act (ECA), which was one of the laws that was amended. Not only was its invocation of the ECA irrational in some cases, it also showed that the Centre was ready to use provisions it had tried to eliminate.

However, it is also clear that more than the government’s own vacillation, the repeal was primarily a result of resolute opposition by farmer unions for over a year, regardless of lives endangered and lost in protest activity. Even the Prime Minister accepted in his speech that the government failed to convince these protesting farmers of the three laws’ merits. State polls due in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, states where the agitation was strong, must surely have hastened their repeal.

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