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Today (08th Jan 2021), farm leaders and Indian government had their 9th round talks and as expected the talks were not successful. Agriculture minister came out with a smile pasted on his face and gave statement that ‘India is a democracy and thus talks will go on’, he came out from ultra-modern state of the art building called Vigyan Bhavan. From the very same building farm union leaders came out and gave statement that is very grave for a democracy, they said ‘we will not go to judiciary, and will forward the movement until their demands will be met’. This article is an effort to understand the implication of statement of the farmers.

Industrial Revolution

Modern nation state economy is hugely influenced by the industrial revolution that occurred in the Europe and United States during 1760s to 1840s. This very revolution is responsible for many cultural and social changes that occurred afterwards. Some of the immediate changes in the economy is that, the economies that were based on agriculture & handicraft got transformed into economies based on large – scale industry, mechanised manufacturing and factory system. This change not only changes the economic lives but also social lives of scores of people not only in Europe or United States but also in the colonies of these very nations.  

            Due to scale industry, mechanised manufacturing and factory system, need to create a proper and disciplined worker force was felt and this is how modern schooling system was created to make a child sit and do certain work repeatedly over and over for 12 years and ingraining the child’s mind that following instruction is the most important trait of an ideal student.

            Other large changes that happened was manipulating modern ideas French Revolution and using those to safeguard the interest of capitalist class. Thus, power of dictating a country’s policy shifted from the welfare of the ruling class to the welfare of capitalist class. This shift in the policy is the basis of whole capitalist world order, where ‘Economy’ is the central point in every aspect of life from – marriage to governance to military adventure and foreign policy. This compelled the governments of states to pursue economic wealth rather than following ideas propagated in French Revolution.

Ideals of French Revolution and Separation of Power

The ideals of French Revolution are – Liberty, Equality & Fraternity – and these can be interpreted in different form and can be annotated in different meaning. But, these ideals of the French Revolution were never enshrined in any of the constitution in absolute sense. This is due to the Capitalist – Politician Nexus.

            Coming to separation of Power, this system is also a result of French Revolution. According tot this system three different bodies/person/institution should be created and power for legislature, execution and Judiciary should be assigned to each of the body/person/institution. This will ensure a system of check and balance. That is whenever one body/person/institution try to assume absolute power or overstep other body, the remaining two bodies will check the first body.

Present Situation

Having discussed the basic concept, now we can analyse the statement given by the farmer union leader in today’s 9th round of meeting. One clear indication is that farmers want accountability from the government on the farm laws. Secondly, they have very less trust in the judiciary and see approaching judiciary as a conspiracy. They want to make it a direct action. This attitude of direct action will have ripple effect and the movement of farmers will get morphed into different field and issues. This morphing of the movement cannot be restricted by a folly of ‘discussion’ which the present political class is doing.

            Thus, following conclusion can be made out of the statement made by the farmer union leaders: -

1.     Protest will go on till the farm laws get repealed.

2.     New opposition will get created by the farmer. This is evident form the fact that no other political party get any traction whenever they tried to talk about the agriculture. This is partly due to the fact that the same opposition did nothing when they were in the power and the present ruling elite have this tendency of blaming the previous parties for their wrongs.

3.     This protest will get morphed into many different protests.

4.     There is a chance of giving this country a new political order.

5.     Power of democracy will be shown to the ruling elite in near future.  

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