Other occasions when Centre pulled back on farm issues due to public ire

The proposal to put on hold the three farm acts for a year or thereabouts is just the latest in a string of pull-backs by the govt during the past six years or so. Read on

With thousands of farmers protesting on Delhi borders for about two months against the three agricultural Acts, demanding that the laws be repealed, the Central government has not only agreed to amend some of their critical provisions, but in a sudden development also offered to hold back their implementation for around 18 months.

If the laws are held back, that will be a climb down by the Centre, which had called these laws “game-changing” legislation meant to break decades of shackles that gripped farming in India.

Before offering to completely withhold the implementation of the acts, the Centre had offered