{"id":6818,"date":"2021-12-14T20:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T20:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6818"},"modified":"2021-12-14T20:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T20:10:44","slug":"indias-farmers-confronted-modi-and-won-what-happens-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6818","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s farmers confronted Modi and won. What happens now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“In a surprise reversal<\/a> after more than a year of nonstop protests, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to repeal three controversial laws<\/a> affecting the country\u2019s agricultural industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The laws, which sparked a massive protest movement after they were passed<\/a> in September 2020, were designed to modernize India\u2019s agriculture industry \u2014 but India\u2019s farmers and other critics said they would advantage corporations at farmers\u2019 expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modi\u2019s decision to back down is a key victory for farmers, whose protests have centered on the Indian capital of New Delhi, and a sign of growing dissatisfaction with the increasingly Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which Modi leads.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The laws promised to open the agriculture market to commercial buyers, as opposed to the current system of government markets purchasing farmers\u2019 goods and effectively guaranteeing them a minimum income. But as Vox\u2019s Jariel Arvin<\/a> explained in December 2020, farmers feared this would subject them to the whims of the market and massive corporations, and make it harder to make a living.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/11\/20\/22792934\/india-farm-laws-repeal-modi-mass-protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In a surprise reversal after more than a year of nonstop protests, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to repeal three controversial laws affecting the country\u2019s agricultural industry.
\nThe laws, which sparked a massive protest movement after they were passed in September 2020, were designed to modernize India\u2019s agriculture industry \u2014 but India\u2019s farmers and other critics said they would advantage corporations at farmers\u2019 expense.<\/p>\n

Modi\u2019s decision to back down is a key victory for farmers, whose protests have centered on the Indian capital of New Delhi, and a sign of growing dissatisfaction with the increasingly Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which Modi leads.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The laws promised to open the agriculture market to commercial buyers, as opposed to the current system of government markets purchasing farmers\u2019 goods and effectively guaranteeing them a minimum income. But as Vox\u2019s Jariel Arvin explained in December 2020, farmers feared this would subject them to the whims of the market and massive corporations, and make it harder to make a living.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[224,83,942,362,238],"class_list":["post-6818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-farmers","tag-india","tag-protesting","tag-protests","tag-subsidies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6819,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions\/6819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}