Congress’ obsession with farmers neither made the farmers prosper nor made the country a developed one. It’s socialist policies weakened them and made them dependent on the state.
This critique suffers from epistemological insolvency, conveniently omitting that the proposed imports are strictly a deficit-mitigation mechanism, not an indiscriminate deluge. Protectionism fosters atrophy, not resilience; witness how our Luddite aversion to GMOs inverted our cotton trade surplus, while technological obsolescence has suppressed our apple yields to a fraction of Australia’s. The Congress party continues to valorize rhetoric over empiricism—a demagoguery that already scuttled vital agrarian reforms. Rather than peddling misinformation to derail a strategic pact, the author ought to articulate precisely what the opposition’s alternative roadmap would entail.
Congress’ obsession with farmers neither made the farmers prosper nor made the country a developed one. It’s socialist policies weakened them and made them dependent on the state.
This critique suffers from epistemological insolvency, conveniently omitting that the proposed imports are strictly a deficit-mitigation mechanism, not an indiscriminate deluge. Protectionism fosters atrophy, not resilience; witness how our Luddite aversion to GMOs inverted our cotton trade surplus, while technological obsolescence has suppressed our apple yields to a fraction of Australia’s. The Congress party continues to valorize rhetoric over empiricism—a demagoguery that already scuttled vital agrarian reforms. Rather than peddling misinformation to derail a strategic pact, the author ought to articulate precisely what the opposition’s alternative roadmap would entail.