It’s about public good, not private greed

Recognising that land remains an emotive issue, configurations across the political spectrum in India have been vying with each other to be seen as pro-farmer. The persisting, strong human attachment to land was used to considerable advantage at Singur and Nandigram in West Bengal, and at Bhatta Parsaul in UP. Politicking, rather than rational economic and social reasoning, is now taking place around framing a new legislation to acquire privately-owned lands for non-agricultural usages.

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