Is land the new high-risk asset?

Earlier, anti-acquisition agitations were localised affairs, a significant percentage confined to remote tribal areas, that attracted little media or political attention. The politicisation of this process was inevitable and once politicians like Bengal’s Chief Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, and more recently the Congress’ Rahul Gandhi, jumped into the fray to make capital of such agitations, the equations changed abruptly and dramatically.

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