1/5. Barbed wire, Barricades and Border Security Force to stop farmers from reaching Delhi? Wow! There’s Cooperative Federalism for you. Or is it cooperative feudalism with the subedars of Haryana saving the Dilli Darbar from a peasant uprising?
#FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers
2/5. Remember the 3 Farm Bills (now laws) that were to ‘liberate’ farmers from the clutches of the evil APMC? Rammed through by the Centre, hailed by media and ‘expert’ economists. Damn! The liberated are biting the hands that never fed them.
#FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers #FarmBill
3/5. The government then quickly ‘codified’ 29 labour laws into four codes. More media and expert applause. But the ungrateful workers so empowered are on the streets today fully supporting the liberated farmers. Happy Constitution Day, all.
#FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers #FarmBill
4/5. Do a quick check: how many corporate media dailies and TV channels have a fulltime labour or farming correspondent (not people covering just the agriculture ministry)? Compare that with the number of their reporters covering business.
#FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers #FarmBill
5/5. When you have multiple fulltime correspondents covering industry, stock markets, cinema, IPL but not a single fulltime one for labour or farming, you are saying: 75 per cent of the population do not make news. (Except in election year).
#FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers #FarmBill
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