Political knives that should not cut the supply chain

As the opening up of retail gets put on the back burner, at least until the Uttar Pradesh election, I still do not understand why the Congress has not pushed this through earlier. They would certainly benefit from rewarding the huge number of voters at the two ends of the tunnel — the farmers and the consumers. The tunnel itself, or the chain of middlemen, comprises a much smaller but powerful lobby of traders, traditionally supporters of the BJP.

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