ORGANISERVoice of the Nation 40.00 Vol. 72, No. 15 New Delhi October 4, 2020, Ashwin Krishna 3, Yugabd 5122 REDEFINING REFORMS Since 1991, reform has been a buzzword to justify any decision, mainly related to privatisation. The recent legislations on Agriculture and labour laws set to liberate the farmers and workers from the clutches of quota permit Raj. At the same time, they provide a new meaning to the concept of reforms www.organiser.org OCBER. 4, 2020_Organiser 25-Sep-20 2:11 AM Page 3 l ISSN : 0030-5014 l Vol. 72 l No. 15 l October 4, 2020 l OPINION 18 Will Xi Jinping Relent 20 Obnoxious headquarter of Chinese Information Warfare 22 Army Ethics are Minimum Use of Force & Good Faith 36 NEP is Key to India’s Quest for the Superpower Status 10 COVER STORY 38 In Search of Nalanda Agricultural Reforms: Uncovering the Reality ANALYSIS/ ECONOMY 24 The Green World Order: India could be a Leader 14 OPINION Farmers First or SPECIAL STORY Politics First? 48 Mumba Devi: Guardian Deity of Mumbai COLUMN 04 Readers’ Forum 05 Editorial 44 Defence Scan 28 AKKITHAM 40 100 YRS OF MOPLAH RIOTS Jnanpith presented to 46 Book Review WWI & the Indian Muslim Akkitham response Editor: Prafulla Ketkar l Asso Editor : G Sreedathan l Sr Reporter : Nishant Kumar Azad l Web Consultant: Ganesh Krishnan R l Associate Art Director: Shashi Mohan Rawat l Sr Graphic Designer: Mukta Surma Kataria DTP Operator: Manoj Kumar Singh l Cover Page Design : Shashi Mohan Rawat l E-mail: [email protected] l Website: www.organiser.org l Phones: 011-47642018, 20, 22 Bharat Prakashan (Delhi) Ltd. 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Printed at HT Media Limited, Plot No 8, Udyog Vihar, Greater Noida (UP) - 201306 OCBER. 4, 2020_Organiser 25-Sep-20 2:28 AM Page 4 READERS’ FORUM role to achieve the goal of self-reliant other Indian citizens enjoy. These India or Atmanirbhar Bharat. NEP Self-Serving leaders are crying 2020 also lays emphasis on the because the agenda on which their teaching and learning of vernacular politics run is completely ruin as the languages at primary level. It takes people of Kashmir are supporting the into account the diversity of India, its government’s move. traditions, culture and languages. — MAYANK SINGHAL, Delhi — RISHI SHARMA, Kapurthala Selection of Vaccine China’s Ego Hurt APROPOS (Vaccine Nationalism for APROPOS (Mistakes India Should India is the Way Forward, Against Not Make) Organiser, September 27, Blind Support to Corporate Interests) 2020. The five-point consensus Organiser, September 27, 2020. Towards Bhartiyata signed between India and China on From the beginning of the pandemic, APROPOS (The Mughals: Neither the sidelines of Shanghai the WHO is seen as the spokesper- Heroes, Nor Heritage) Organiser, Cooperation Organisation has mixed son of China. India should take every September 27, 2020, the editorial reaction. India should not trust step to end Covid without looking for rightly questions the legacy of China. History repeats itself, and we international reputation. India has Mughals and takes a look on the have many examples when also made significant efforts to get rid symbols of colonialism by them. To Communist China cheated India. It is of coronavirus. Prime Minister break the cycle on a misconception, for the first time any country has Narendra Modi has also said that we should stop looking at colonial challenged China, and we should not three vaccine trials are going on at myths and, instead of this, follow our let this opportunity drift off on setting different levels in the country. But own Bhartiya heritage. We should issues. Let China taste its own policy. coronavirus cases keep rising every inspire New India through Swarajya This time India should also defeat day. The vaccine should be cost- and follow our national figures like the Chinese policy of taking two effective and all people, rich or poor, Chhatrapati Shivaji. Secular-liberals steps forward and one step back- should have access to vaccine. should decide whether they want to ward. — AMIT DUBEY, Bihar be the part of diverse and progres- — MANIKA SOORMA, Varanasi sive India irrespective of religion and Making an creed. Kashmir Valley Atmanirbhar Bharat — DHEERAJ, Mumbai Back on Track APROPOS (Atmanirbhar Bharat APROPOS (Self-Serving Leadership is Abhiyan is not just a Campaign of Knowledge now in Self-Prevention Mode) Few Organisations or the Superpower Organiser, September 27, 2020. The Government But a Responsibility APROPOS (A Light-house for New annulment of Article 370 and 35A and a Task for Every One of Us), India) Organiser, September 20, has shaken Kashmir’s politics. September 21, 2020. This is a very 2020, The New Education Policy Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah inspirational idea. How to achieve 2020 (NEP 2020) approved by the are giving different versions of the Atmanibharata should be a lesson to Indian Government will act as a party’s strategy; Syed Ali Geelani be taught in schools. Local industries torchbearer for the robust young and has resigned from the Hurriyat and should empower women in textile, energetic youth. The New Education the Azadi movement is now a history. automobile, traditional medicine and Policy brings not only marvellous, Major development projects in other sectors. The world is going constructive and innovative changes Health, Tourism, Agriculture, through a tough time due to Covid- in the pattern of education but also Horticulture, Skill Development 19. Time has come for India to formed a comprehensive national Sectors are already under various become Atmanirbhar for its own curriculum framework for teacher stages of implementation, local citi- cause and for the sake of the education. This will enhance the zens of Kashmir are happy as they humanity. quality of education and play a vital will get the same benefits which — DR NAGAMANI, through web Organiser 4 October 4, 2020 OCBER. 4, 2020_Organiser 25-Sep-20 2:27 AM Page 5 Redefining Reforms eform has been a buzzword since we adopted the policies of liberalisation, privati- Experience has shown that sation and globalisation in the 1990s. All decisions meant to push different sectors farmers who have opted out to the private players without any protection in the global competition were defined of agriculture have made a R as reforms by the successive Government. It was clearly an antidote to the social- better living for themselves ist thinking that prevailed since the Independence and marketed as the Hindu while many of those who Rate of Growth. Naturally, when the Union Government introduced three legisla- stayed back have become tions bringing changes in Agriculture laws, many people are concerned – for dif- impoverished and indebted. ferent reasons. We need to test them on the parameters of intentions and impli- The closed character of cations instead of political considerations. agriculture is largely due to Out of the three bills related to the Agriculture that got the approval of the governmental restrictions Parliament, most of the confusions are about ‘The Farmers’ Produce Trade and in many regions on non- Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020’. Farmers should get the right farmers entering the price for their produce in the absence of intermediaries is the explicit goal of this sector. Those who make a bill. The socialist mindset and parties that survive on peasant’s politics thrived living out of agriculture solely on the mushrooming of ‘middleman culture’ are naturally opposing this sometimes find no escape. transformation. The Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs), controlled They are also denied access by these so-called farmers, are essentially the business space of commission- to new investments and based manipulators. They are the once who are spreading this rumour about the capital” scrapping of Minimum Support Price (MSP) that Government gives for purchasing specific farm produce. Neither APMCs nor MSP would be scrapped, and the –Sharad Joshi, Founder of nature of Acts and actions of the Union Government makes it amply clear. Shetakari Sanghatana, Whether there should be a separate bill for ensuring MSP or criminalising the pay- Farmer can look to greener ment less than MSP is a question which we certainly can discuss. Over the period, pastures, based on the experience, separate legislation can be considered for the same. Till http://www.sharadjoshi.in/ now, MSP has been an administrative mechanism and not a legislative one. node/53 The same is true about the idea of Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance. The new legislation will empower farmers for engaging with processors, wholesalers, aggregators, large retailers, exporters, etc., on a level playing field. It will assure price to farmers even before sowing of crops, reducing their risk. The apprehensions about ‘contract farming’ and dispute mechanism under it are understandable. Why should we distrust the ability and acumen of our farmers just because benevolent custodians of their interests do so? Equipping and training farmers to deal with these players should be the prior- ity for the real votaries of farmers interests.