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Both government and farmers need to re-evaluate their positions -Ajay Vir Jakhar

-The Indian Express

Before the storm begins to take a turn for the worse or begins to ebb, it is time also for the farmers to reassess and seek positive concessions, because at the end of the agitation, no one would want a status quo ante, that is inevitable otherwise.

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting,” Haruki Murakami’s words best describe the farmers’ protest and plight.

Frustrations about a decade of low farm-gate prices form the genesis of the farmers’ protests — a consequence of the government’s carefully crafted agenda to keep placated the urban consumer vote bank which costs farmers their livelihoods and dignity. In face of the determined agitation, the government realises it has erred; yet, without acknowledging as much, it has relented to amend the Acts within weeks of their enactment.

But, the farmers demand that the Acts be repealed. Their point is best exemplified by an analogy: A family, on purchasing a new car, takes delivery. Before they can leave the showroom compound, the car stutters and stops. On closer examination it is found the electricals have failed and the engine has a manufacturing defect. The company offers to repair the car free of cost. But, what does the family do? The family obviously wants a replacement not a repaired car. Similarly, the farmers want the Acts to be replaced not amended. Theseus’ paradox too asks whether a ship that has had all its parts replaced is still the same ship.

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