Before India Breaks Its Promises, The Cautionary Tale Of The American Kisan
What is the farmer protesting about? A very real existential threat. The devastation in the US farm sector gives us a scary parable for Kisan Diwas. AP Manu Kaushik 2020-12-23T18:13:12+05:30 Before India Breaks Its Promises, The Cautionary Tale Of The American Kisan outlookindia.com 2020-12-23T22:02:12+05:30
“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday tweeted an appeal to farmers in various languages to read agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar’s letter to them on the new farm laws, a clear acknowledgement that the protests were gaining traction outside the Punjab-Haryana belt.
Till now, the government’s messaging has largely been in Hindi and Punjabi. Even the written offer of amendments to the three laws, sent to the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha last week, was in Hindi and Punjabi.
Saturday’s tweets went out in all the southern languages too, apart from Bengali, Gujarati and Odia, reflecting the growing footprints of the agitation that has already witnessed participation from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan in the siege of Delhi’s borders.
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