A notable new feature of public life in India is the colonization of agriculture and farmers by legalizing the entry of corporate sector in buying, hoarding and selling the agricultural produce as well as contract and lease-based agriculture work.
Looking a the way the new farm bills were introduced through presidential 'ordinance' and bulldozed through parliament to become acts during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis period, deeming the new farm bills as 'anti-farmers' and 'pro-corporate', the world's biggest and most organized and peaceful peasant uprising is being witnessed in India from the last three months which has won support from the UN and various countries as exercise of democratic and human right of peaceful protects.
Meanwhile, in the government and protesting farmers being a deadlock situation, in some states which land was given to the corporate houses to stock the produce, infrastructural and organizational activities are being carried out under civil and private protection as shown in social media. It being accused that the rulers are acting as mere puppets manipulated by the corporate houses by social activists and human rights activists.
After, one year of farmers' protest, the GOI has promised the roll back of the acts but the public is keeping its fingers crossed.
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