Amit Shah had assured Delhi, that if BJP is voted t power, #ShaheenBaghProtest would end the next day.
Now the protests are spreading to Jafrabad too.
Is Amit Shah not doing the right thing because of politics?
Now that the matter is sub-judice, everyone is in a wait & watch mode.
Likely endgame scenario is that protesters won't relent and SC gives free-hand to executive.
This what the protesters want. Visuals of women manhandled and forcible evicted by Police in international media
And now they've occupied the Jafrabad Metro station, while Police is watching.
Is Amit Shah waiting a pitched battle between those want to use the Metro Station and those who wudn't let them?
Modi and Shah have, for last 20 years practised the strategy of tiring out the opponents and/or giving long rope for the opponent to unravel and the public mood to swing.
Has the public mood swung enough against the Islamists of #ShaheenBagh, now spreading to Jafrabad and more
After Jafrabad, they've not cut-off the Bhajanpura Road.
Why did BJP give up on the CM position in Maharashtra?
Here is what I think:
While the Shinde faction has got control of the legislative party, the political Party that is Shiv Sena is still in control of the Uddhav faction.
By making Shinde the CM, BJP has paved the way for Shinde to bid for total control of the Sena, including the party symbol.
Given the numbers, BJP will still be in control of the Govt and will be able to push through its development agenda, including the flagship Infrastructure projects that Fadavis started and which were stalled by Uddhav,
In the times of the food scarcity of 1960, the monoculture of wheat and paddy made sense.
Today, the MSP system has led to a situation where wheat and paddy is being grown to rot, not only at great cost to us taxpayers, but also to our environment and to farmers.
Left to market forces, there is a natural feedback; if consumer demand for millet grows, the prices increase, sending a feedback to grow more of it in the next cycle, a glut in a commodity will send the price crashing and will be grown less in the next cycle.
Over a period of time, the market will ensure that the producers are producing as per the consumer demand.
The MSP systems cuts-off this feedback and has converted Punjab into a monoculture and a cancer belt.
If farmers must be respected, because they put food in the plate then why not the construction worker, who built the home that you live in?
Let's demand State subsidies and freebies for construction workers, paid by us taxpayers, just like we do for the farmers.
Farmers are like any other producers and businessmen, they must be respected just like any other producer.
Today, Dubai gets much better food in its plates than Bathinda, even as UAE has no farmers.
Building food supply chain is most critical.
Today, farmers in India are not producing what the market (that is we the consumers) needs, but they produce wheat, rice and sugarcane, far more than what we need and it ends up rotting in the FCI godowns.