At Second P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture, Patnaik spoke about reliable sources of nutritional data being ‘undermined’, British exploitation & ‘unrelenting attack’ on developing nations.
P Sundarayya, a pioneer of the peasant movement in India, had zeroed in on three main classes in the Indian countryside: landlords, agricultural workers, and a differentiated peasantry.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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