Sachin wrote:Explained: What Punjab’s three new farm Bills say, what they seek to achieve
What is the impact of such a law? I am hearing two different opinions, and I tend to agree with the second one. First is from the "secular" camp which says Punjab has been brave enough to completely make the central laws irrelevant in Punjab. The second is from the "communal" camp which says that these bills would still require ascent of the President of India, as they are amending central laws. For example when MH enacted the MCOCA to hit back at the mafia it required President's ascent as this act was byepassing/modifying some provisions in IPC and Cr.PC (which are centrally legsilated laws).
Note; even the news quoted above says only the state made "bills" have been passed, but it generally becomes an "Act" only when Governor approves it. Seems to be jugglery of words.
The center's new avatars of the farm laws have defanged a few long and decades old entrenched lobbies that earned large amounts of money, and as a result, had acquired massive electoral influence over captive vote banks and were self sustaining in terms of assured revenues that came in year after year and kept a few clans/families in power and political relevance.
they are the ones opposing the new laws and not the farmers who are in reality their hapless victims and bonded labor to keep them in luxury.
Once their vote banks are marginalized, and these greedy families/clans are slowly neutralized, the electorate will not tolerate them as easily as before and this will affect their other almost monopolistic businesses as well, because other competitors will soon spring up to grab a share of the pie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9T4p90nUfc
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