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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Mediating the farmers’ protests is difficult terrain -Sriram Panchu

Mediating the farmers’ protests is difficult terrain -Sriram Panchu

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published Published on Jan 14, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 14, 2021

-The Hindu

If the top court does find itself mandated by a higher public duty to intervene, then it must observe some essentials

For nearly half a hundred days, the farmers of North India protesting against the recent farm laws have been at the capital’s outskirts, braving the bitter cold, and growing in numbers. They have mostly kept the peace and their dignity, and their communities seem ready to support them for as long as need be. If the authorities had any hopes of the protest petering out by dissonant voices claiming to represent farmers, or labelling them as anti-national and fuelled by pro-Khalistan elements, these do not look like carrying much weight. New Delhi’s mandarins have a first class headache, brought on principally by the way in which they hustled through legislation which affects the lifeline of India’s agrarian sector.

Central issue is about trust

One thing stands out clearly, and that is the lack of trust the farmers have developed about the designs of the government; the laws, they say, will leave them at the mercy of corporates. Given the imputed closeness of the ruling elite with corporate houses which have ascended to commanding heights of the economy in multiple key sectors, this is not a charge easily to discount. The farmers’ focus is on retention of the MSP, the minimum support price mainly for wheat and rice, and the need to provide a statutory backing for this, in the absence of which a corporate with ready cash will tap into farms in need. And the necessity of continuing with the mandi system which provides the wherewithal for open trade. On its part, the government offers assurances but these fall short of binding legal mandates, in other words asking the farmer to accept on trust that all will be well — and that brings us back to the central problem of lack of trust in the central government.

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The Hindu, 14 January, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/mediating-the-farmers-protests-is-difficult-terrain/article33570989.ece?homepage=true


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