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India, being a democracy, means that governments have to give in to demands of voter groups. The two largest voter groups are farmers and low wage labor. This has ensured that acquiring land for large scale projects or changing labor laws carries massive political risk.

Changes to India’s farm laws now seem next to impossible. I doubt India will have a more popular government than it has today. Yet, it had to cave in and withdraw a farm law reform bill.

If even this government couldn’t pull it off, there’s little chance future governments will do any better.

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This is a tried and beaten down nonsense.

How much land do you think Apple needs to move its entire supply chain to India?

A few thousand acres?

Yeah, you can find non-agricultural land of that size all over India. 40% of India is non agricultural land.

Land acquisition related issues for establishing industries is a popular tool by politicians playing their politics. It has no bearing on reality or actual troubles faced by farmers.

> This has ensured that acquiring land for large scale projects … a political risk

You’re confusing land acquisition issues for road/rail projects where a very specific parcel of land is required with land acquisition for factories.

Indian States are some of the largest land owners and there are so many notified SEZs in several Indian states.

>India, being a democracy, means that governments have to give in to demands of voter groups

Love how everyone is throwing around the word "democracy" in this thread like saying it makes hot true and that it has some specific meaning.

The only reason Apple is moving there is because it is NOT a democracy.

'Electoral autocracy': The downgrading of India's democracy https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56393944

Propaganda. The government of my state is led by a party that came into existence less than a decade ago. Every election has literally hundreds of candidates from hundreds of parties competing. I can and have criticized the government on online and offline mediums

Sure, there is pushback from government supporters, but that doesn’t mean there is no democracy. As it is practiced, democracy is thriving in India.

Do you live in Assam, Manipur or Kashmir? Are you Adivasi?

It’s a democracy in all its messiness and glory.

Just as a side note, BBC is never keen on India, simple googling would tell you the weird biases they had against India, they don’t even hide it or be subtle about it, my theory is, it’s an established bias in organization for generations since Independence of India and it passed on.

Please read more Economist or Reuters for actual factoids or practical opinions on India that are close to reality (I know South of earth news sources are all biased to west unless it’s loaded with triggering emotional stories of victims, I could list some good ones)

LOL.

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