Hey, are you happy today? Why? Oh, is it because you had your favourite food during meals? Great! Do you know the reason for that food? Your mum who cooked or your dad who brought or the vendor/shopkeeper who sold it? Oh, okay, you give the major contribution to your mum. She cooked it so well.. hmm!
Really? Is there any major one missing who is involved in your happiness? Remember social media’s hyped statement: The Art and The Artist?
So, let’s apply it in your today’s happiness.
“The Art” -> Food
“The Artist” -> Mother :))))
Father :)))
Vendor :))
Farmer :!
Why is the farmer placed at the end of the list, in spite of having the root major contribution to your happiness? Dear, the meal you enjoyed today was the result of some great person who worked for almost a year to fill the stomach of people whom he didn’t even know. And what reward did he get after all this?
A tremendous one.
“Some great unsatisfactory farm laws with beautiful loopholes, a sophisticated shower of tear gas, water cannon facilities provided not for irrigation but for protests, prominent lathi-charge, a blessing of ignorance of their rights from central government, some nicely unheard pleas, and of course procrastination….. leaving them in an unseen predicament”
Wow, what a surprise return gift they got for making us go to our beds without an empty paunch and with a happy face. So, that’s how the Indian government treats its farmers! Farmers are not heard in an agriculture-based country like India. This is unacceptable. The government made laws FOR farmers but they turned out to be AGAINST farmers. Okay, these laws aren’t completely wrong but they have such loopholes which make their benefits approach zero.
So, in a country, laws are made for the people, for their benefits and betterment. But what the government did: “It made laws which made the farmers sell their produce to anyone they want (private sector)… But this has a greater chance of farmers being exploited than they were before this law” and this is just one aspect but there are other loopholes which these laws contain and curb farmers’ survival.
The government thinks it has done great work for farmers’ betterment but the reality doesn’t exist in their thinking.
Rightly said, only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. Ever asked farmers what they think of these laws? Lol, you are talking about ASKING, the government isn’t even LISTENING to them. Shame!
If the “Annadaata” of a country is suffering, then it is hard for others to even survive. The government and country are worrying about its economy? My friend, will the economy ever revive if the farmers providing food to the government and country aren’t happy and dying because of money and helplessness? If the “Annadaata” dies by suicide, will the nation survive?
Government has to listen to the demands of farmers. If not, please stop calling the Indian government a Democratic Republic. Why don’t we call India a “so-called democracy cum dictatorship where people can protest but the protests will remain unheard until they are violent!”.
Will you all be able to show your faces to those revered Constitution makers up in the heaven? They must have never thought that democratic policies will fall to this extent. Rest in Peace.