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and more than a year of nationwide protests and violence, india's prime minister has withdrawn a set of controversial forming laws. but why now and what are the political and economic implications? this is inside story. ah hello, welcome to the program hashem alba for more than a year now farm as a cross, india have been holding mass brought ass 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 for new delhi, her gender core is finally relieved. she is 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 her, and me, it was hard, but they go and off i water supply electricity and old to come and go. they did everything they got to make our lives difficult, but we have finally one pharmacy began protesting soon after india's parliament, past 3 agriculture laws. they say a fable big corporations and leads them was off. while some rallies ended in

violent 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 marines remotely withdrawing the 3 controversial laws. if my unique anthem is in the parliament session starting later this month, we will complete the constitutional process to repeal these 3 agriculture laws. palmer the celebrating his victory. but see the announcement as the 1st step saw most of these temporary structures last year when they decided to camp out until the government rolled back to 3 laws. they said they only pack up and go home once the parliament officially revokes them. they also point a 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 movies, utah, toms, a 7th piece, or heading into critical elections early next year. heated 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 this, which is a very crucial state and could be done of his party to power in 2024 depend largely on how they do in the u. b. and he wanted to retain. you'll be a total cost and best and you'll be as important. so it's one job for that matter. movies announcement comes on the day of one of the biggest festivals for the sick community, which has been on the forefront of the foremost filter. and while that made it most significant demonstrate, as they will teach you that they did the promise to hold pre planned rally and will observe the 1st anniversary of their protest later this month. party middle, i'll just see about new delhi, the las vegas, all gas. they're all joining us from new delhi, your gun dreyer, the founder of jake, you sent underline, and all in the farmers and farm workers organization of was his also member of the

coordination committee of some years case on march of echo alicia, leading india's farmer's movement ashes schuessler, an international journalist covering india's current affairs and his governing party, extensively javi them unsightly, of 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 modernize andy as agriculture. what do you think has happened when democracy has to reach a democracy? is all about signals being sent to political. and in this case, signals were about as euro reporter noted, signals were about the upcoming elections in this. if the dish, which is the largest state in the country, signals are about the growing and popularity of the prime minister signals were

about the government, b, c. as in the far, not in a country, we are farming it out 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 dra 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, who are just that, the national ethical region 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 lost 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 mowdy or realization that there is up?

so there's no way he can sell this legislation to the farmers anytime soon. at least. i think so. yeah. makes me laugh really when he says that he's a very unpopular leader, because by all estimate, he remained really popular leader after what he had his chief to during the over 19 and to make and as far as the se is told, and almost, i don't think it had been more for most than from job arianna and argue from there, but which is a very small make bent over 10 or bomb us in this country. but you rightly say it is almost 60 percent of india as workforce. so if democracy has been 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? again, if you don't mind, i'm going to jump it 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 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 or,

or financed or if, as the government for to have or how does believe to day before yesterday. this was a succession is more than 700 light will not be lost. hundreds of thousands of farmers would, would not have 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 lambing. these treated control should 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. i initially 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 us most credible running political barrel meter by a magazine called in yesterday which is not empty. he has found that in the last 6 months, his ratings have dropped in a dramatic way. that's what i was ref anyway to the loss 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, for things which are actually defaults. are india, has it rather bad? she system of marketing protection for the fall. what this did was it and farmers had 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 farmers, 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 endeavors offer storage, 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 roof. farmers felt and knew that once someone has that kind of control over agriculture, deduce only, then they can be the price is down when they wanted. these are standard practices in market, so these would be forms, these were not resource ok. ashes. 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 standards, an attempt to lead them on their own. dealing with big corporations in india. see

if you talk about the private corporation, which will take over the bombs as it has been rejected, the bomb was added to your buddy. the say no. and as far as the fear is that the bmc the mondays in which they sell as of now would be taken away again. there is a noise part of it. it's just that the bombers have had the support of newton all under the farm loss that they could sell it where they could get the maximum price as well as in case. busy other crops. busy need to be brought in, which is really necessary some to hear some oil. busy seek some one says they cost a great deal and importing for that to have you need to have a supply system also. busy value chain of storage of. busy logistics or digital technologies that if you are wanting to read and

study, which is the case and this is in the education labilly the palm as a new jobs belonging to police. 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 this because of this area. and to say that they have been under poll. we all know that there have been enough rush in for them. busy and everything that they have been shipping, i think it's a, it's a complete. busy it only is kind of narrative, okay, and it's not, is it by the no more 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 for $139.00 seats. assembly seats the beach appeared one close to $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 fleet and we're 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 bi election after the recent bi election, the b j p 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 will not have prolonged 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. vitale, 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 ugly told sir, which were 600000000. roughly speaking, indians are involved and instrumental to their livelihood. or they contribute to something like 60 percent of india's judy be in another term, it's 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 a how can anyone possibly disagree with the speech thing, but you know, it reminds me of that or joke. odd 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 tier

of productivity is an issue. marketing he said he should have 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, economist in 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, wible. this particular set of changes which are ord 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 selves who wish it could not be implemented. particularly 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 let's admit a lead or kind of not disagree on this, that this man has been in public eye or a beer tree or part of more than 3 decades and been quite successful at it so he can't be afoot. secondly,

article which successful negotiation. i don't think anyone could deny him how india has come up from so far on as far as your warms up. 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 the down going to make it public because i think these reforms largely are in dressed of in the us far muss and to 80 percent people, 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 been the s c committee and member of it. and he said that all the 2 of us were on the same page. if they said that these forms would for the farm. busy most and what it is being done at the moment is to

hijack it, or self interest and maybe or in just a degree of understanding. ok, by creating little dwight, i think needs to get a very serious talk to it. javin. 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 caught 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 hinders 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. they are 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, prime minister can back off you 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 try 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 misconceptions, the idea that it was not receiving some spec subsidies is completely mistaken. if

we must have a steady back processor lackey who mister shaw 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 subsidies, 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 subsidy if in the i guess, similar kinds of subsidy, we don't want more than all we were seeing was, is 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 and 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. we'd 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 reduce the need better credit system. we need to move towards copper to do its walk, reduce formula cooperatives, 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 javi them. i'm sorry, thank you. and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com for further discussion. got our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash a, james. i. so i can also join the conversation on twitter. i'll hand it is as a jane size sorted on behalf of my mother and the entire team here in doha. my for now.

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