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“THE DAYS OF CASTE POLITICS ARE OVER”

Q You are currently facing two challenges: the ongoing pandemic and the farmers’ agitation. Several villages in your state have put up hoardings banning the entry of BJP-JJP leaders and workers. How do you propose to tackle these challenges?

Challenges are a part of life, there is no shying away from them. But challenges also bring opportunities, which can yield rich societal dividend if you build on them. It is not that Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought these new farm laws out of thin air. They were discussed during Congress and UPA times. The then agriculture minister Sharad Pawar also held several rounds of discussion. In Haryana, the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government brought in the APMC Act in 2006; it was later amended in 2008. The framework for contract

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