Manish Tewari | Is farm bills’ real aim to cover fiscal deficit?
Published : Dec 20, 2020, 7:23 am IST
Updated : Dec 20, 2020, 7:23 am IST
For a country where 65 per cent of the population lives of agriculture and 36.4 crores are poor this is nothing short of suicidal
Farmers shout slogans during their protest against the new farm laws, at Singhu Border in New Delhi on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. (PTI/Ravi Choudhary)
With the farmers’ agitation now entering the 25th day jamming the borders of the national capital the time has come to ask a fundamental question, Are the farm bills aimed at addressing a problem that the government is even terrified of acknowledging?