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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.
30 Nov 2021, 08:33 AM IST i


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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