Driving a hard bargain; not to secure the farmer but his political master January 25, 2021, 10:23 AM IST
Lakshmi Iyer is a journalist worked with Mumbai Mirror, who has been covering politics for three decades in Delhi & Mumbai.
As protests by farmers ,mainly from Punjab, against three farm laws completes eight weeks this Republic Day, one stark message emerges from the spirited men encircling Delhi. Which is that the highway logjam is no ordinary protest about a few laws . It is more of a hard political bargain that is being driven in the name of farmers. The protests seem more aimed at reviving fortunes of a moribund political party than is connected to improving the lot of the ordinary farmer ; it is more intent on hobbling the Narendra Modi Government that decisively won 2019 Lok Sabha elections than perhaps finding ways to end the logjam .