Our government decided to repeal the recently introduced three farm laws. I wrote about its political aspects here.
Now, immediately after the announcement by Prime Minister, various people started writing their reactions on Twitter. Interestingly, among various seemingly Right Wing handles, I found more discontent than support for this decision.
On Twitter, some lawyers, IT engineers, students, etc were so pained due to repealing of three farm-laws, as if they have really lost something. How can you lose something which was never there? Farm Laws were already in a suspended state, after all! Those never started, so no loss happened in their repealing!
A lot of opposition speakers on TV were also critical of government even after this historic decision by Prime Minister. According to some speakers on TV, govt should have repealed farm laws earlier to prevent some protesters from dying protesting it. How about being grateful for repealing it now and hence preventing more protesters from dying in future?
I really doubt the integrity of all people crying on Twitter just because our govt repealed an already suspended law which never saw the light of the day! I mean, what was there to cry about?
Some people on TV gave number of farmers who died due to various reasons protesting against Farm Laws, to blame our govt. Do they know number of farmers who die due to snakebites in a year? Or suicides, or rivalry? It is not easy to say whether the protests caused "net" loss or "net" gain in number of lives which were lost at protest sites Vs which could have been lost in the fields. Farming is a risky job.
I don't know if those critical Twitter users were really serious about the benefits which these farm laws were going to bring or is it that they were just playing with emotions? Everyone knows that state governments can still enact these laws under various provisions and Center even can bring some of these laws in future at a better time. Then, why was it such a big deal today? Or is it because today being a holiday due to Dev Diwali and Guru Nanak Jayanti, a lot of people had a lot of idle time, to be extra vocal? Look, even I wrote two blog posts after a long time!
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