THE farmer stir
that claimed six lives in police firing in Mandsaur on June 5 may have petered
out, but its aftereffects are still being felt in Madhya Pradesh politics and
the government. Aftermath of the stir is manifest at many levels; in farmers’
smoldering anger; in the State government’s desperate attempts to buy their
produce at the risk of huge loss to the exchequer; in the Bharatiya Janata
Party’s damage control exercise; in resurgence of the faction-ridden Congress.
In sum, the farmers’ fury has set the tone for contest between the two major
political rivals for the assembly election due in November 2018.
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