'Entire political science' lesson: Peoples' power trumps people in power

Climb-down on the three controversial farm laws has broken the myth of invincibility that surrounds the government.

Prime Minister Modi, who was unbeatable in Parliament--and used his party’s brute majority to push through the farm laws without proper debate--has been subdued in the street by peoples’ power. The Central government’s climb-down on the three controversial farm laws is not the only achievement of the farmers. They have broken the myth of invincibility that surrounds the Narendra Modi government.

The farmers’ movement, the biggest of its kind in post-Independence India, fought charges of being separatist Khalistanis, of using ‘sinister toolkits’ to agitate, of being manipulated by the Opposition and by Communists, facilitated by hostile foreign powers, and being