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Just as my colleague Shreegireesh Jalihal was putting to bed his latest investigation into the tainted origin of PM Aasha scheme, he thought he had something similar to an insight scoop.

He connected the random dots spread across the reams of official papers on PM Aasha and found a quiet agenda in the Modi government’s scheme that promised price protection to pulses and oilseed farmers.

In the fine print of PM Aasha, he found evidence of the government’s persistent quest to privatise agriculture trade.

He realised that PM Aasha is part of a series of attempts since 2017 to dismantle government-regulated produce markets known as APMC mandis, open the sector to large private investors and pass on the burden of crop procurement to states.

When it failed, the Modi government decided to give up sugar-coating its bids to privatise agriculture and rammed in another set of farm laws that sparked farmers’ uprising.

Read about it in this blog here.

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