The protesting Tamil farmer pays for the UP farmers loan waiver

May 30, 2017 10:53

"Not only does Tamil Nadu not help its own distraught farmers but it helps pay for farmers in UP. Farmers from Maharashtra are also protesting for waivers of their loans due to drought. Their protests have also been futile but Maharashtra is the biggest contributor to UP loan waivers. This is the saga of India's federal taxation quagmire. To be clear, this column is not about the ideology or economics of farm loan waivers but about India's fragility as a tax union." Read the column here.

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