‘Delhi Chalo’: Why farmer protest smells more of politics than agrarian distress

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The I.N.D.I.A opposition is in tatters with entire parties and prominent individual leaders deserting it frequently. Rahul Gandhi’s East-West Bharat Nyaya Yatra is a damp squib. Other efforts from the DMK in Chennai and the Congress in Karnataka, both seeking to promote poisonous and divisive agendas, have also failed to gain any traction. Meanwhile, the ruling combine has been notching up one success over another and is poised to win the 2024 elections with a larger majority than in 2019. But here comes a significant and emotive disruptor. In utter violation of democratic norms of measured negotiation, Supreme Court directives...