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The Threat of Corporate Interests Is a Key Unifying Factor in the Farmer Protests -Ranjini Basu

-TheWire.in

While rich farmers, who were so far aloof from the struggle, have been compelled to join the small peasantry in the face of a larger corporate threat, it is yet to be seen if the protests will temper existing inequalities.

The present farmers’ struggle knocking at the doors of the capital is a culmination of many streams of ideologies, concerns and a wide class coalition. Like any dynamic mass movement, the articulations of the protestors have been developing and becoming eloquent by the day.

These nuanced articulations have been widening the scope of the impact of these farm laws on the largest sections of the toiling masses, which is further adding strength to the resistance. This unity, seemingly overshadowing the existing fault lines of the Indian countryside, has been achieved in the face of an aggravated agrarian crisis riding on the back of the neoliberal reforms, introduced in the 1990s. This unity is also infusing courage into the movement to withstand the constant vilification campaigns directed against it.

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