By Kiman Kaur

Tens of thousands of Indian farmers have marched to India’s capital, New Delhi, demanding that the government repeal three agricultural reforms: (1) the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce Act; (2) the Farmers (Empower and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act; and (3) the Essential Commodities Act. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced these three bills to the Parliament of India in September 2020 in efforts to push forward the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s (“BJP”) deregulatory agenda. All three agricultural bills were passed by the lower house of parliament (“Lok Sabha”) and the upper house of parliament (“Rajya Sabha”) and then approved by President Ram Nath Kovind . . .