Withdrawal of agricultural law is not like drinking a sip of insult for the government
The peasant movement is a tragedy and the government can solve this problem only by changing its policy.
The central government is trying to change opinion, not policy, on agricultural bills. But like the Ram temple controversy, this time the elected government cannot take all the decisions to the court so that its own image remains clean.
Thousands of farmers are sitting on a dharna on the borders of Delhi in the midst of a cold winter. Almost two months have passed. Is it just a question of their own opinion, their concept? This is a tragedy and the government can solve this problem only by changing its policy.
This writer had written the same two weeks ago that the government will first try to change the opinion of the people. It was expected that the refusal of the first people should be converted into a contract.
Contrary to the claims of the government and the ruling party, the middle class has sympathy for the farmers. Farmers are putting their lives and livelihood at stake for justice. Now no one believes this argument that farmers have been tricked politically or theoretically. The middle class stands behind the Indian farmers intellectually – irrespective of the state of the farmers, or they speak any language.
Who trusts the fairness of the Supreme Court committee
This solidarity of ‘far-flung villagers’ and city dwellers is a matter of concern for any elected government. This shows how deep the roots of misrule and exploitation are in our villages. The image of Indian society is something else in the minds of the middle class. But the farmers sitting on the borders of Delhi shed the shadow of rural India in the drawing rooms of the people of the city. Now it can not be turned away.
For this, the committee formed by the Supreme Court, its task is to resolve the deadlock between the farmers and the government. However, all the four members of the committee feel supportive of the agricultural bills and there is no expectation that they would recommend the repeal of these bills.
Farmer- No, because they have already rejected it. Urban middle class – Absolutely not, because he is well aware of these pants. Rural middle class – not at all, because it has hurt the agricultural bills. Very poor people – there is no question, because they are on the mercy of rich people. Rich people – hardly, because they are powerful.
But the judicial system accepts the findings of the committees as correct. These conclusions are hereby changed and applied to the objecting country.
Unsuccessful attempt to change public opinion towards farmers
Several attempts were made to change the public opinion towards the farmers:
- First of all, the peasants were called anti-nationals. But this bet was ineffective because people have sympathy with the farmers and their movement, even if they do not agree with their methods.
- Second, it was said that farmers of only two states are agitating. This was wrong because the representatives of farmers from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states are also sitting on a dharna.
- Thirdly, the ruling party alleged that only middlemen and arbiters are opposing. This maneuver did not work. Instead, the attention of the people shifted to big businessmen who have now become middlemen between consumers and farmers.
- Fourth, the purpose of throwing tear gas on the farmers and police brutality on the Rajasthan-Haryana border was that the attention of the people should go to the dharna site of farmers instead of agricultural bills. But before this last strategy would fail, the Supreme Court intervened.
During this time, the government talked to the farmers eight times and that too failed. It is interesting that the opinion of the farmers with whom one side was being negotiated, on the other, was being formed against them.
What is the way now
What does the way the wind is being made against the farmers show? The attitude of the government suggests that withdrawal of agricultural bills is like drinking sips of insults for it. However, the way leaders are taking these bills personally, it is foolish.
Because there are so many shortcomings in these bills that any leader should avoid adding his name to it. Apart from this, it should also be assessed what are the demands of the farmers and what will be the effect of these demonstrations on all areas.
The middle class thinks that if “the matter is in the court” then the situation remains the same. This is not a case like Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid in which common people can have a neutral view. This will affect every person in the middle class when and when he buys food and sits down to eat.
The only solution to this is – Agricultural Bills should be repealed and they should be prepared afresh with the advice of farmers.
Why should the government not do something that is in favor of the common people?
Why is the government instead looking for new ways to discredit farmers? About 50 farmers who staged sit-ins have died, but why does the government not bother with this? These are the real questions that are destroying people’s perceptions towards the government and the ruling party. Their opinions are changing.