For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost, goes the saying. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan might lose his kingdom — 6.4 million farmers, to be specific — to keep around 350 agricultural traders happy.
Everybody knows what happened in June-July this year. Farmers grew a huge onion crop. Prices plummeted. The Madhya Pradesh government intervened and bought around 900,000 tonnes of onions at Rs 8 per kg from farmers. But farmers were still not happy and their protest took a violent turn. The police opened fire at the protesters. Five people were killed. Finally, the onions just
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