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ha ha. more than a year of nationwide protests and violence in just prime minister has withdrawn a set of controversial formula. but why now and what are the political and economic implications, this is inside story. ah hello, welcome to the program hashem alibaba for more than a year. now, farm as a cross, india have been holding mass protests, strikes and sit ins. that actions have been against a set of farm laws. they say hurt their livelihood. but the government had long

defended that legislation, which would have ended minimum price guarantees for produce. that was until friday, when prime minister not ins remedy made a sudden announcement, his administration would withdraw the controversial laws. we have a lot to get to with august 1st. bob limited has the latest phony deli, the, her gender. gore is finally relieved. she's volunteering at the community kitchen in the outskirts of new delhi where she has been protesting with thousands of other farmers. she says it's been a difficult year for me. it was hard, but they turned off the water supply, electricity and roads to come and go. they did everything they could to make our life difficult, but we have finally one form of began protesting. soon after india, parliament passed 3 agriculture laws. they say feeble, big corporations and leads them was off. while some rallies ended invited

confrontations with police, several rounds of talks between farm was unions and the government fails to end the standoff until this sudden announcement, but prime minister in the reins remotely withdrawing the 3 controversial laws. is my naked anthem in the parliament session starting later this month. we will complete the constitutional process to repeal these 3 agriculture laws. arnold palmer, the, calibrating this victory. but see the announcement as the 1st step, almost set up these temporary structures. last year when they decided to camp out until the government rolled back the 3 laws. they said they only pack up and go home once the parliament efficient revokes them. they also point to critical issue the prime minister failed to mention the $700.00 farmers who died during the protests and their demand to government guarantees them a minimum price for their crop. more these utah comes, the 7 states are heading into critical elections early next year. he did the

writing on the wall. he relies, unlike many of the people who are around him, that b j. b would not have a very easy passage in with a police, which is a very crucial state. and can return of his party to power in 2024 depend largely on how they do in you'll be and he wanted to return, you'll be a total cost and best and you'll be as important. so it's one job for that matter. molly's announcement comes on the day of one of the biggest festivals for the sick community, which has been on the forefront of the farmer's protest. and while that made it most significant demonstrators, she will continue this it. they promised to hold people and rally, and will observe the 1st anniversary of their pro, just later this month. party middle, i'll just leave out, you deli, ah, let's bring in august the all, joining us from new delhi, you again dre. adar found of jackie st. angela and an all in the farmers and farm workers organization of so are she's also

a member of the coordination committee of some years case on march. are they co alicia, leading india's farmers movement ashes, shock, law, and international journalist covering india's current affairs. and this governing party, extensively javi them and sorry, political analysts and commentator. welcome to the program. you're going to who would have thought that maria would finally back down on a farm reform. it was always insisting it was instrumental to more denies andy as agriculture. what do you think has happened when democracy has to reach democracy? is all about signals being sent to political us. and in this case, signals were about as euro reporter noted, signals were about the upcoming elections. and this is the dish, which is the largest state in the country. signals were about the growing and popularity of the pipe in his turn. signals were about the government being seen as

in de farmer. now, in a country we are farming accounts for about 60 percent of the population directly or indirectly. no prime minister wishes to be seemed to be so unpopular. although i must see, the striking thing is not that the families are finally spent coffee. the striking thing is how long it took the government to spell coffee. it is a journal. and just for your viewers, you just it. the national ethical reason of the country surrounded by hundreds of thousands of farmers out there on the street in india's winter. some are for monsoon, if it determines sense and the government was not speaking the farmers for the last 10 months. so i guess democracy has found that he predict. i said, do you think this is pure political calculation by murdy or realization that there is absolutely no way he can sell this legislation to the farmers anytime soon?

at least i think this makes me laugh really when he says that he's a very unpopular leader. because by all estimate the remainder ready, popular leader after what he has achieved during the over 19 and demick. and as far as the se told them, almost, i don't think it had been more for most than from job. and why do you from which are my days, which is a very small make bent over 10 or bomb us in this country. but you right, lisa is almost 60 percent of india as workforce. so if democracy has for real or, and has period, i have my own views on it, but we would come to it as the program goes. java, do you think that this will get back to you later you can do if you don't mind? i'm going to jump in just about this move. do you think that it will be enough to

win the hearts and minds of the people that the b j. p has been describing as terrorist and separate is for them once a year? it's going to be very difficult and or should i do disagree with? the panelist was book before me and trying to undermine this farmer's ms. newman. you can, you can wish away you can do cheryl play with the numbers that the fact is that mr . moody has read the writing on the wall, he's capitulated. this is not an act of generosity or mcknight, liberty. this is neither an example of responsive cup, but he realized that there would be a huge political price to pay in the forthcoming assembly elections. and that is primarily the reason that he is backed up dick and distinct, nothing of it from the fact that the farmers have been out dead. 700 lives have been lost if this was only supported by a small group of farmers all or financed or if,

as the government for to have or how does believe to day before yesterday. this was a session is more than 700 lives will not be lost. hundreds of thousands of farmers were, were not been out there on the street breathing and just watching somebody and bitter court. so i think this is a grave injustice to describe this as only representing a minuscule this should all, this will, mister mowdy may be popular otherwise, but he was extremely, he had become extremely unpopular in the farming community after wrapping these treated controversial laws. uganda, let's break down the reforms for, for people to understand why farmers have been frustrated with, with, with the reform themselves initially the on about the need to loosen some of the rules about sale pricing of the storage of the produce industry. this should be good for the farmers. why were they or was apprehensive of it?

lovely one, what about is to more these popularity? i was just referring to the fact that in the most credible running political battle meter by a magazine called in yesterday, which is not anymore. he has found that in the last 6 months, his ratings have dropped in a dramatic way. that's what i was referring to. anyway to that last basic as well on the face of it, all these would look very nice. the trouble is that the word reform has been captured, hijacked 14th, which i actually d for india has it rather bad. she sister of marketing protection for the fall. what this did was it and farmers have been demanding over the years. the dispatcher protection should be extended. what this law meant to do was, instead of expanding this protection available to foreigners, it sought to do away with the existing protection. that's for farmers for alarm.

you don't sit in the old outside there for one year. if you are not truly alarmed about what it would do to your future, ah, it does offer storage. ready the system was that it would take away the existing limits on already, and the farmers felt and the consumers felt as you must felt, that the prices would go to the rules. farmers felt and knew that once someone has that kind of control over agriculture of produce only, then they can read the price is down when it but they want it, these are standard, this is in market. so these would be forms. these were not resource. ok. i search the government said that a won't abandon the minimum support price of that. initially, it would continue to bring the incentives and the subsidies, but it failed in a way or another to explain to the people that this is not by any standard is an attempt to lead them on their own. dealing with big corporations in india. see if

you talk about private, the corporation which will take over the farms as it has been rejected. the pharmacy at liberty, the say no. and as far as the fear is that the a p m. c, the mondays in which they sell as of now would be taken away again. there is a noise. part of it is just that the fall must have had the support now under the farm loss, that they could sell it where they could get the maximum price, as well as in case other crops need to be brought in, which is really necessary. but some studio, some oil. busy seek some one says they cost a great deal and important for that to have you need to have a supply system also value chain off storage of. busy logistics. busy or digital technologies that if you are wanting to speak to read and

study, which is the case of this present, the education lab will be on the farm as a nice jobs belonging to some jobs. and so i think we are missing then. yes, yes, i think the water table and when that is not in institution in the rest of the country, under solely a part of the speak to this area and to say that they have been under poll. we all know that they have been enough rush in for them and everything that they have been shipping. i think it's a, it's a complete. busy busy it only is kind of an attitude ok, and it's not so either by the number of the author, the issue or the fact that you would have to, you will have to move forward to cover different angles of this particular story. job it. so in this particular case, do you think that the main reason why the prime minister does find the to back down

on the reform or the rule on the farm reform is purely political because of the anxiety about losing the state elections, particularly in punjab. and also if our products i have absolutely no doubt in my mind that that was primarily the reason why this prime minister backed on mister moody's, not known to take a step backward. in fact, he and his supporters have made great virtue out of this. this is only the 2nd time, even earlier on the one cellular when it came to the land acquisition bill. he back down the writing was one, the wallet in west and you p rest and you'll be accounts 439 seats. assembly seats, the b g p at one close to a $190.00, something to be precise. and by all accounts, and you don't have to go by what i say, go by what? a ranking member of the b j b. now a governor of em. hello, mr. st paul molig said they were in for the severe dropping on reports from the

ground indicated their cabinet ministers who hail from their teaching were unable to go out and campaign in their own villages. so therefore, they read the writing on a ball and it took to step back even to least in the recent by elections after the recent by elections, the b j b got a drop it, and they rolled back the prices of petrol and diesel. so then there is enough and more evidence to suggest that this was done only because of the elections of mine. had it been anything else, 6700 lives would not have been lost. they were not to prolong as if it had been of the good. oh goodness of their heart, they would have realized this. they ought to, it never brought this laws at the 1st place, vigor, consulting, the very people who were going to be affected so much by it. you kendra, i mean that the, the reform is shell for the time being however, does not necessarily mean that this is the and for your own problems. and the problems for the farmers is how can you explain to the international community,

for example, and to all viewers that agriculture, which were 600000000. roughly speaking, indians are involved and instrumental to their livelihood. only contribute to something like 60 percent of india's gdp in another term. it about time to think seriously about how to improve this sector. otherwise, it will just come to a demise when they're on another. absolutely. how can anyone possibly disagree with the speech thing, but you know, it reminds me of that or joke of situation is very serious. let's do something about it. sure is something, therefore we must do it. no, it does follow. you have to tell me that this is something that you have brought on the table is the thing which would solve the problem. so the problem that you describe is absolutely real. most of indian farm was a very small farmers. the average of farm boarding in india is less than one of

productivity is an issue. marketing he said, he sure how to make small, far more into wiper fall is an issue. the only question be had. well, how did these t lot help that? how does bring in corporate said that. now economists to me that you have to reduce population dependent on agriculture. sounds lovely. trumpet is, where would you send it and would you throw them in the sea that isn't all employment be generated in albany, low industrialization is taking place. so the only solution that we have is to make our existing agriculture, small, already agriculture. why? but this particular set of changes which are all reforms and i insist these were before they actually took you away from this judge. this doesn't help, indeed farmers at all. and, and i think we must move away from the colonial mindset that believes that these, the farmers are idiots. that believes that they are in fence who don't know what is good or bad for them for once i would request. michael bennett is to please

consider that these farmers may have in mind of their own. all right, us, as you said, that her mother remains more popular than ever. but when you look at this latest setback, combined with other setbacks, particular when it comes to what he always described as landmark reforms, which were shelved who wish it could not be implemented. particular when it comes to the, to the reforms of the, of the land and the citizenship reform. and the other reforms that have promised who will introduce the didn't work out. could this be an indication that the prime minister will end up just a lame duck leader for the remainder of his 2nd term? i think less, sir. admit a lead or kind of not disagree on this, that this man has been in public eye or a beer chair, part of more than 3 decades and been quite successful at it so he can't be a fool. secondly, after college successful negotiation,

i don't think anyone could deny him how india has come from so far on as far as reforms act. and soon as you know, the supreme court had appointed 3 member committee, and one of whom are nearly confir, which everyone knows not by now. has said that the recommendation which you had given to supreme court, which in his own business it has not disclose so far. anita, is that they're going to make it public because i think these reforms largely are in dressed off in the us far must. and to 80 percent, 80 percent foremost they spoke to, they said except for a little we can here and there, these farmers, these reforms are good for the community. so when the s c, committee and member of it, and he said that all 2 of us were on the same page. if they said that these reforms, what would for the farm most and what it is being done at the moment is to hijack

it. or self interest and maybe or in just a regular to create unrest in india. ok. by creating little dwight, i think needs to get a very serious talk to it savage. if the farmers banish with the very notion of nationwide strengths to bring about this reversal by prime minister, do you think that this could bring the or cut, galvanized the opposition to build momentum in the near future in india? in an ideal world, that's what ought to happen. but in given the nature of india's opposition, which is so highly fractured, it's a dog dos. but yes, this could provide some kind of encouragement, provided they're able to sicken their differences and they're wanting eco's of their able to come together. you see the factors that this dis sorted, hispanic. and you need to have

a strong leader and an ideology on our agreed platform or principles on which you would come together at that moment. it is missing. i just want to answer that. like the question, did you ask my 20 mister shook up. i don't think he'd become the lame duck, but certainly this, it has punctured a big hole in that mid to which he and his jelly does that created that he's mr. neuron we've, we've seen that as of the case of the monetization now. and the case of land acquisition and, and, and what he did yesterday he, he makes his mistakes and if you can, if by enough public pressure on him, then even dis, but i minister can back off yet what i do fear. and a lot of people do believe that maybe he's gone to in the next coming days or perhaps even weeks, he might do something really bored and something out of the box to trying to recapture that image of a strong assess of leave us a set of lead, okay,

for what for that we left to agency your guns are you said it's about time to stop that condescending attitude. collodion, i teach you to were the to was the farmers. but you know, this is a new well with different sets of challenges. cyclic, a drought floods, climate change and you can not just rely of the general subsidies and the debt waive us from the government to be able to move forward as a farmer because farming was supposed to be the pride of india. it's not the case. you cannot even compete with neighboring countries. so what do you think should be the alternative or the option for, for your country to move forward when it comes to modernizing the agricultural sector allow me to remove one misconception, the idea that it was not receiving some stack subsidies is completely mistaken. if we must have a steady back processor lackey,

who mr. shoot club would agree is actually on the side of the government. that study has fall is responsive by all you see. it has found that india has given negative subsidy, which farmers in the last 2 decades, negative subsidies not positive. so that to complete mid july that we are giving too many subsidies to the us. yes, subsidy and all is not a solution all over the world. farmers do get subsidies if in the i get similar kinds of subsidy, we don't want more than that. all we were seeing was a certain minimum protection for price like yes, we need to or if we need better marketing infrastructure and no corporate in the world would come in to set up their marketing infrastructure in places where farmers have very little surplus to send the government has to step into that. we need better protection. i'm glad you mentioned climate change because climate change is one of the biggest challenges for indian agriculture lead, better insurance. the current regime has actually reduced the number of people who

are insured on the who's drops. what ensure, so we need better protection against against or can it be need better credit system . we need to move towards copper to do us walk, reduce formula cooperative and will need to move towards organic agriculture need be need climate resistant exit as a but i'm sorry these 3 laws had nothing to do with this. what about corporate capture of indianapolis? touch ok, zillow and we're running out of time. i really appreciate your inside, your 100 of us is shakela and java them. i'm sorry, thank you. and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website, eligible dot com for further discussion. got our facebook page. that's facebook dot com. forward slash a. james, i sorry. you can also join the conversation on twitter. i'll hand it is, add a jane size sorted for me. hash umbrella and the entire team here, they'll ha ah

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