Make in India

[Lucid Thoughts]

Leaving everything else aside, is there anyone in this forum actually supporting Rahul Gandhi's point of view? (that jahamir does not count)

I am. Land Acquisition Bill is inherently discriminative against Punjabis.

 

[MarkovChain]

I am. Land Acquisition Bill is inherently discriminative against Punjabis.

Explain please

 

[Lucid Thoughts]

Explain please

The economist explained it best:

The benchmark for compensation is set by recent sales of local land. But such transactions, which are rare at best, tend to have taken place at depressed prices.The direct sale of farmland to industry is anyway banned (ostensibly to protect farmers), which rules out a whole category of potential buyers and drives down prices. High stamp duties have a similar effect. Farmers with fertile land often end up feeling swindled when appraisers fail to take full account of variations in the quality of their land.


Farmers hold land for generations so there isn't a reliable figure for compensation. Therefore, the farmers are losing $$$ because they sell short of true value.

 

[deckingraj]

I don't know how long people will be fooled like this. What's their intention? Do they want India to remain primarily agrarian economy forever? Without land and labour reforms how will we move forward? What kind of a future for India do these politicians want?

Even their own karnataka's government is struggling to projects completed and they are busy opposing the bill in centre

Karnataka government faces dilemma as key water project requiring land acquisition hangs in balance-IBN SouthNews - IBNLive Mobile

Yar this is hogwash....they brought this bill and food security during the last leg of their govt. thinking that this will them election...even their own govt. in states were crying...and now they are using this to revive their fortunes....just shows morons may even sell their mothers to come back to power....you can hardly expect anything that you write above..

 

[magudi]

It could be and probably is a combination of many factors.

Simple one is political opportunism, that is as opposition, you oppose anything that you can get away with. They perhaps see long term gain in painting Modi as anti-farmer and pro-rich.

Next, if you look at history of such people, this dynasty considers itself the rulers and in a sense owners of India. Thus, what they want is a backward society that considers them their mai-baap so to speak. A sort of feudal system, where the farmer is entirely dependent on the zamindaar.

They don't want progress beyond a level. They'd wish for most people to be under- if not un-educated, thus enabling these mai-baaps to fool them easily on the basis of caste, religion etc.

Another angle is their foreign allegiance, which would want India to be developed enough to be a huge market and have enough factories for their business to exploit cheap labbour, but not so developed that it becomes a challenge for them.

I am sure there are many more factors, but that's just from the top of my head.



I am sure they'd be a few AAP supporters who would have jumped ship from being Congi fanboyz. There were a couple prominent ones, Prometheus and that Guynextdoor fellow if I recall accurately.

You could tag them here to get their views.

If their own figures are to believed then around 65% of our pop is dependent on agri. I mean wtf that'll be more than total pop of most countries. Their logic sounds like more land = more productivity. When I see such people trending #kisaanvirodhinarendramodi and #rahulroar I think there's no hope left for this country not to mention our 4th pillar 'the media' which is spear heading this misinformation campaign!

 

[ashok mourya]

 

[Nicky G]

If their own figures are to believed then around 65% of our pop is dependent on agri. I mean wtf that'll be more than total pop of most countries. Their logic sounds like more land = more productivity. When I see such people trending #kisaanvirodhinarendramodi and #rahulroar I think there's no hope left for this country not to mention our 4th pillar 'the media' which is spear heading this misinformation campaign!

Well 4th pillar is truly presstitute, they are essentially a hit squad for hire, so they have no credibility.

A lot of trends appear and disappear on twitter, it does necessarily mean they will have any impact. A lot of them are sponsored and generated by bots to begin with.

Point is as that GoI needs to communicate directly to the people and bypass the presstitutes.

 

[ashok mourya]