What is the obstacle to fining these farmers? (Most agricultural systems have moved past burning stubble.)
Do the farmers form a blocking bloc? Or are there other factors at play.
Farm laborers are a totally different set of working class people. Who only until recent decades were into as bad as a thing like bonded labor. They work on starving wages and are generally poor and from lower castes.
India for very long has given feudals unlimited loan bailouts, and freebies. They also pay no taxes. Most of my friends who come from farmer families has gone to do expensive education in countries like US. And they are often confused with farm laborers and they milk this perception to the very extreme.
Imagine being so rich you hold large banks of land, make windfall profits, pay zero taxes on them and get freebies(seeds, fertilizers, water, electricity) and then being confused as the poorest people in India.
Its the farm laborers that need help. And they are unfortunately treated very badly. Heck many people don't even recognize their existence.
Why aren’t the farmers’ interests balanced by the afflicted voters?
It's not a local issue because the pollution emitting happens in a different state than where the concentration causes most of the problems, so it would need to be addressed at the national level.