Realpolitik routs reforms

The reform thrust image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received a severe dent in his scrapping the three farm laws. For over a year Modi has advanced sound rationale for the agri reforms that would liberate agri product marketing from the confines of a state and benefit farmers across the country.  The stubborn and often violent resistance by the farmers of the three beneficiary states – Punjab, Haryana and UP – received the backing of parties opposed to the BJP – Aam Aadmi, Congress, Communists, DMK, TMC, Samajwadi…Most of these parties did not bother to go into the merits of the reforms.