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Four key takeaways from the BJP’s U-turn on farm laws -Roshan Kishore

-Hindustan Times

What are the key takeaways from the latest turn of events surrounding the farmers’ protest? Here are four key things that stand out:

Faced with a resilient farmers’ agitation for more than a year, the Narendra Modi government has decided to repeal the three contentious farm laws, making it perhaps the biggest political retreat by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since it assumed power in 2014.

What are the key takeaways from the latest turn of events surrounding the farmers’ protest? Here are four things that stand out:

BJP won’t risk political capital for policy credentials

It is clear that the farm laws have been repealed with an eye on coming assembly elections, especially the ones in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. While this is clearly the biggest political retreat by the BJP since 2014, it is not the first one. The government had done a U-turn on the issue of amending the Land Acquisition Act when protests erupted across the country during the first term of the Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in 2015.

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