Bharatiya Kisan Union challenges new farm laws in Supreme Court

Bharatiya Kisan Union challenges new farm laws in Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Kisan Union on Friday moved the Supreme Court against the three farm laws which has triggered farmers’ protests in the country. BKU president Bhanu Pratap Singh alleged that the laws would lead to commercialisation and cartelisation in agriculture, affecting the country’s food security. The law would lead to dismantling of the … Read more

Opposing for posing’s sake: Successive governments have been held in thrall by a few state governments

Opposing for posing’s sake: Successive governments have been held in thrall by a few state governments

Plato, in Euthydemus, complains that the philosophers known as the sophists are indifferent to what is actually true or false, but are interested only in winning arguments. In other words, they are no different from our modern political class on the current agriculture reforms, where many of them are only trying to spread bovine faeces … Read more

Farm fix: Two worrisome features of the farm bills that invite valid opposition

Farm fix: Two worrisome features of the farm bills that invite valid opposition

Farmers in Punjab and Haryana are on the warpath against the Centre’s new laws on agriculture. One of the BJP’s oldest allies, the Shiromani Akali Dal, has withdrawn its representative from the Union council of ministers in protest, although she was quiet when the ordinances, which are being replaced with the new laws, were approved … Read more