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How The BJP Failed Modi… And India’s Farmers

It would seem as if the party itself had not bought into the vision of its leader, writes Shankkar Aiyar.

<div class="paragraphs"><p>BJP supporters hold up a cardboard cutout in the likeness of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the Ramleela Ground in New Delhi, on May 8, 2019. (Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg)</p></div>
BJP supporters hold up a cardboard cutout in the likeness of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the Ramleela Ground in New Delhi, on May 8, 2019. (Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg)
How does an economy transform a sector which employs over 40% of its workforce but accounts for barely 16% of its output? How does a nation migrate from the neither-low-nor-middle-income economy status if the bulk of its rural populace must survive on one-sixth of the national income?India’s aspiration for a $5 trillion economy is daunted by the state of its farm sector. The unviability of the sector is illuminated by agitations by l...
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