-RuralVoice.in Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation of the Rs 30,000-crore Jewar International Airport in Uttar Pradesh (UP) today, he made a subtle outreach to the farmers too in the wake of protests over the three central farm laws. Last week, Modi announced to repeal the contentious laws and on November 24, the Union Cabinet approved his proposal. A bill will be tabled in the winter session of Parliament...
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UP: It’s not Back to Square One After Farm Law Scrapping -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in There are too many reasons why people, especially farmers, are angry with the Yogi-Modi ‘double engine’ government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement that his government will repeal the three farm laws came with just a few months left for crucial Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, which were crucibles of the year-long farmers’ struggle against these notorious laws. It is but natural that the connection between the announcement and the...
More »PM Modi showed magnanimity and political sagacity by withdrawing farm laws -VS Pandey
-Hindustan Times Democracy is all about elected governments bowing down to people’s wishes and in that sense the decision taken by PM Modi is praiseworthy, writes VS Pandey. Prime Minister Modi, in his address to the nation, announced the withdrawal of the three contentious farm laws and apologised to all those who had suffered because of the same. Farmers, basically from the states of Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh have been...
More »When Supreme Court spoke its mind on Lakhimpur Kheri incident, farmers -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Bench identified with farmers while insisting on a speedy, impartial probe The Supreme Court’s intervention to protect the investigation in Uttar Pradesh following the murder of farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri, in which the son of a Union Minister is an accused, as well as the expressions of support for the farming community from the Bench of the Chief Justice of India created ripples days before the Prime Minister’s televised assurance...
More »The defeat of hubris, a confrontation on hold -R Ramakumar
-The Hindu The addition of local agrarian demands into the call for the repeal of the farm laws may have forced the Government’s hand The repeal of the three farm laws by the Union government, on Friday, marks a historic victory for the farmer’s movement in India. For more than a year, thousands of farmers had barricaded Delhi, and their protests were gradually evolving into a pan-Indian movement of resistance. The belated,...
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