Where are YOU?
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Farmers are on the roads. Do you see others, who have suffered, joining them? Migrant laborers? Anyone else? Over two dozen farmer organisations have announced support to the 'Bandh' call on Friday to protest against the farm Bills passed by Parliament amid marched and protest in North India amid protest which may turn violent later if demand did not met. There, 96 Thousand Tractors and 12 million Farmers are protesting on the border of Capital of India viz. New Delhi.
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Understand where the problem lies.
Understand today that this will take longer. Till a sizable number of people don't wake up, nothing is going to change.
Remember that you didn't give vote for any party to become a robust opposition. You didn't want opposition, so you can't have any! You created orange, but now you want apple to fall from the sky just because you suddenly realise that the orange is rotten from inside. But you voted against apple. Now you curse and abuse apple for not falling from the sky.
Nothing is helping the opposition because of YOU. People, media, the justice system, institutions, nothing. They are working against every odd because of YOU.
People said they would come on roads the day opposition hit the roads. The opposition has been on roads on numerous occasions. In UP every week they hit roads. Do you see people coming out? 100s of them get arrested and then released. Where are YOU?
This farmers' strike is also happening because Punjab govt stood by the farmers and kept it alive. RG met the farmers when they protested. Congress did tractor rally and many other things to support their cause. Only in Punjab the strike kept on continuing.
Now tell me do you see with them migrant labourers hit the roads? Middle class? Students? Women? Anyone else? Haven't they suffered enough? Why are they not coming out?
People are thinking that 51 MPs will make a huge difference. NO. Last Parliament session, their power was snatched away. The entire opposition protested for days. Nothing happened. Where were YOU? Did people come out then? Their all voice comes out to vilify opposition. They have become hired unpaid abusers by BJP.
People are thinking that Congress is opposition, congress is media, Congress is institutions, congress is people, Congress has to play every role and take Modi out of power while they are mute spectators who are on a vacation and when they reach the booth, they vote for AAP, Mayawati, Owaisi, SP, TMC, independent candidates, NOTA and every possible thing that can keep Congress out of power and help Modi stay in power. Then they come out and again blame it all on Congress.
Their excuse - they want their respective parties to grow at this time, which is the utmost priority for them. Then let your parties grow and take down Mr Modi. Why do you vilify Congress when you vote for others?
The onus is not on AAP, SP, BSP, Left, Owaisi, TMC etc. If they all are not getting together, it is Congress's failure because Congress is power greedy. These people take 180-degree turn if Congress is not in election mode like BJP, then they say Congress is not hungry for power, they don't go for the k*ll.
When did people give majority to Congress last? How many decades ago? Didn't they get good governance? Governance doesn't matter anymore. BJP has taught Hindus that Congress won't save the Hindus from Muslims. BJP has taught the Muslims that Congress never did anything for them. Most of the people have become slaves of BJP, mesmerised by BJP's appetite for violence and winning elections. Do they ask BJP that what did BJP do for them? No. What Congress didn't do?
Did you see how many people were vilifying/abusing/cursing/criticising Congress just after Bihar elections? The left, AAP and AIMIM supporters? Do you see them ever hitting the roads? They are unpaid slaves of BJP. Their job is to spread BJP, RSS's propaganda against Congress ahead. They have an option to support/strengthen Congress as people are dying. But they have taken up just the opposite roles. They are the FALSE sympathisers of farmers/migrant labourers/poor/marginalised.
Did you give Congress majority even after the good governance? Too many bills Dr MMS and Sonia Gandhi couldn't pass through Parliament because they didn't have the majority. They would have transformed things much faster. Now people will reap what they have sown. Did people make Congress even a robust opposition? NO. But Congress has failed and people have won?
Well, then the winners will take the matter in hand and do what is necessary. No?
Farm loan waiver
This concept of waiver has been studies well in the context of Vidarbha (Maharashtra) prices, Andhra and Kerala debt crisis. In all these context, the loans from banks cover only a fraction of the farmer- 30-50% of farmers. Most of the loans are extended to small, medium and medium large farmers and not to marginal farmers. Thus the root of crisis is farmers have to rely on informal channels of loans at high interest loans. Thus, the banking loans waiver is not going to solve the crux of the problem.
Conclusion
There has been rhetoric in last 10 years in favour of agricultural but very few concrete steps have been taken. There is need to look at farming policies, the role of bovine and livestock economy and how it is linked to wider processes of marketing and sale. It is true that many policies are undertaken which have the capability to show the dividends, but it cannot be possible suddenly. Overnight, it is not possible to create 15 million tons capacity of cold storage facility. Also, farm loan waivers is not a temporary solution as it has more drawbacks than gains. The political class, the academicians and agricultural theorists need to sit together and look at concrete comprehensive plans to address the agrarian crisis.
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