The NDA government should be commended for reissuing the ordinance to amend the Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Bill, an anti-development piece of legislation passed by the UPA government in 2013. More commendable is the recognition by the BJP’s top brass that this is quintessentially a political issue, which requires large-scale public mobilisation in support. We must all recognise that it is not merely land ownership but the much bigger question of modernisation of Indian agriculture that is at stake here.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi did well to highlight this in his speech at the. . .