The hypocrisy stands exposed when one sees some of the most revolutionary recommendations of the seminal Swaminathan Report viz contract farming, allowing farmers to sell their produce outside Mandis and APMC also being opposed ostensibly for scoring political brownie points.
While in the case of a farmer the reform delivered double benefit but the political class faces double whammy, that of losing its captive vote bank that was dependent on its sops and secondly losing the massive income they earned as middlemen between the farmer and the consumer. Either the farmer is misinformed or wrongly instigated, otherwise it is impossible to conceive that any farmer should be actually unhappy or opposed for being given more choices, as to whom to sell their produce.
Huge uproar is being created by labeling the reforms as 'Anti Farmers'. However proper analysis of the bills shows that the obstruction of the opposition is primarily political and holds no water.
History will remember Prime Minister Modi for these Farm-reforms, as the former P.M PV Narasimha Rao is remembered by Indians for his Economic-reforms.