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Indian farmers are protesting on the streets for the last few months to tell the government to revoke the three new farming laws which they say will leave them at the mercy of giant corporations. however, the Modi-led bjp government seems to be uncompromising.
I don't understand why is the Modi government so stubborn.
Does the BJP government have any internal connections with big corporations like Reliance, Adani, Larsen-Toubro, etc?
Modi's government is neoliberal and hence corporate friendly. Hence it's policy of disbanding protections of the agricultural sector against corporate capture. That this should have provoked a huge backlash should have forseen, after all, the agricultural sector is the largest employer in India.
His government wants to face down the protests in the same way Thatcher's neoliberal government faced down the miners in the 1980s in Britain. There's nothing stopping them from revoking those laws amd so they should given that India is a democratic polity. The people should be listened to.
