Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi¡¯s government will push to repeal controversial farm laws when parliament reconvenes Monday, to quell protests from a crucial vote bank that show little sign of abating with key state elections due next year.
As lawmakers debate this bill and other legislation, including a ban on private cryptocurrencies during the session, the farmers have vowed to keep pushing ahead with their protests to press the government for guaranteed crop prices.
¡°BJP has lost the appetite to implement measures that might face stiff popular opposition,¡± said Shilan Shah, senior India economist at Capital Economics, referring to Modi¡¯s Bharatiya Janata Party. ¡°Any progress that is made will be in implementing less-contentious reforms.¡±
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