The Farmer Bill vs MSP or Minimum Support Price And The Farmer Protests Actually make no sense!



 The Last few months since the declaration of the Farmer Bill 2020 have been quite chaotic. The farmers are consistently in a mental state of revolt against the government and that too for something called MSP or Minimum Support Price. But after doing some research on the farmer bills, I came to the realisation that the farmer bill is not even about the MSP and MSP is a completely different issue and topic. What is MSP you ask well it is the minimum support price of an agricultural commodity that is fixed by the Government of India to purchase those commodities directly from the farmers to safeguard there profit margin but again the thing is that the bills are not even about MSP. In fact it is very bizarre that out of nowhere, this MSP issue came into this where rich farmers by the way were threatened that MSP will be removed. The thing is why do they think that that MSP will be removed? The most funniest thing is that MSP is imposed by the government and it has been like that for ever and even a bigger shocker is that MSP was never legally a part of Law of the constitution! Government has said that it was and it still is committed to the MSP but never was a law before and even today it is not law and it has been like this for a while. But now somehow out of nowhere, these rich farmers care when a bill is passed that has nothing to even do with MSP. This clearly seems like a massive form of misinformation that has been going on. It almost seems like that the actual farmers have been fed wrong and dangerous information. It may even be some bigger propaganda but we can never know. But I know one thing and that is wrong information is deadly and it has always been deadly for hundreds and thousands of years. It has ruined lives and has impacted the structure of the society and even today, it seems to be causing massive problems. Not only that but now we have seen numerous reports of the Farmer Protest being taken over by Khalistan movement extremist. What the hell is even happening anymore? This whole thing is bizarre and complex. Some hate the government and some support the government, some called all farmers terrorist, some supporting the police, some hating the police, etc, but thing is, each and everyone of them have the ability to destroy each other because each and everyone has enough facts and evidences to destroy each other and that's why it better to be a observer than choosing a side and jumping to conclusion because after all, it is still an ongoing thing that is yet to be solved. There are cries to legalize MSP but why are these cries being made now and why not were the made before? MSP is managed by both center and state government and I see no reason for it legalize. Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmer's Welfare himself said in the Parliament that MSP was not law before and it is not law even today. There have been numerous efforts by the government to have a chat with the farmer leader and all the sittings have been completely useless and inconclusive so far with the farmers throwing threats that they will only get even more aggressive. They straight up want the Government to take back these new passed bills and are not at all ready to reach a middle ground. Not to mention that the protest are turning violent day by day going overboard and who knows what the future holds.

As for the Farmer Bill, I did some digging I think that the farmer bill is completely ok and is actually very pro-farmer in nature and grants a lot of flexibility to farmers. Again it has nothing to do with Minimum Support Price at all and yet some farmers want this bill to me removed. I wonder how many of them even researched about the bill. Now government has a challenge and a massive one. They need to control the protest, they need to control it without causing more damage and the hardest part is, they have to educate the farmers somehow that this new bill will actually help the farmers and will not actually ruin them and doing all of this is extremely difficult looking at the sensitivity of things. Maybe they will have to remove the bill even if it is a step back but government will take the human rights into consideration as well. If farmers are sure they don't want the bill, then the Government has no option but to listen. Hope this thing actually gets solved.

Again we should be lucky that our government is not like China because China would have straight up cleaned everyone by calling the army and giving them shoot too kill orders without caring.

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