We are standing now a decade after most famous and worldwide appreciated protest "Arab Spring", 6 countries were a hotbed of protest and now 3 of them are in ruin, 1 gone under army dictatorship, 1 no change at all, just 1 country seen positive change and democracy, 5 lakh people paid by their lives and around 1 Cr people left their countries. By product of protests like the formation of ISIS spread their horror worldwide. How much we want there is no quick fix to any problem. Anna Hazare's movement was the last time when I personally supported any protest and we all know how it's ended. If we really want any change in society then consistent long term work is the only solution, this can be achieved either by pushing policies through politics, creating informative debate, filing PIL or RTI, through NGO working on some specific empowerment like Education or Making farming more profitable.
In the democratic process, we don't trust leaders whom we elected but trust outsiders who are self appointed, take an example in this protest leaders like Tiket, Yogendra Yadav or Medha Patkar all lost deposit when contested election. In this protest, max achievement can be the repeal of 3 laws means back to the old system but were those systems that good. Most unions are always liberalization as liberalization empowers individuals and finishes union culture. In India, as the economy liberalized unions lost relevance. The best example is labor law, under union pressure laws are strict, you can't easily fire worker so companies hire people on contract. To get labor contracts, contract companies compete and offer cheap labor, 10 to 30% or sometimes more cut goes to contracting company and ultimate labor suffer, he even doesn't get other facilities like PF-Medical, etc and even job is 6 or 11-month contract. Most of such contract companies are run by Goons, Politicians, or union people, now just think if Companies get easy way like pay 2-month salary and you can easily relive employee suddenly contract hiring will end, the employee will get more salary, good opportunities, facilities, even he will not face challenges of searching new job every few months.
Now coming back to farm laws, suppose these laws are scraped then also big companies will get material and now also they are getting through agents, they can even import if it's a cheap option so who will suffer. Good liberal policies only empower normal citizens, big businesses will find out a way of profitability and if required they will shift base, it's the common man who suffers most from restrictive policies. How many businessmen suffered because of the closure of mills almost zero and how many workers?
So stop romanticizing with protest, no protest will change anything except serving the cause of leaders, better focus on liberalization, policies, work on policy change, push for policy debate in front of political parties, take the route of long term slow system change, and trust systems because this is our system.
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