Best of BS Opinion: Farmers' protests, BJP perfects winning formula & more

Finally, a decisive step towards consultation has been taken with the Supreme Court indicating that it will form a committee to address the issues central to the farmers’ protests that have paralysed the national capital. This may well work and is probably overdue, but, as the top edit says here, it is a plan that should have emerged from the political leadership, and not from judges. But the government’s unwillingness to take farmers’ protests seriously stems from its successful formula of weaponising majoritarian politics. This may have worked for the BJP electorally but sending the message to