NEW DELHI-Victory for Rich Farmers and Traders

NEW DELHI Victory for Rich Farmers and Traders B M UTTER helplessness, bordering on fatalism, pervades the government in New Delhi. The failure to respond to the critical situation created by the food riots in Gujarat for nearly three weeks, resulting ultimately in the army having to be called out in Ahmedabad, reflects the state of the government accurately, There has not been even talk of trying to relieve the situation by rushing more food to Gujarat, as was done at the time of the food riots in Maharashtra last year. It is frightening to contemplate what might happen in the next three or four months before the rabi crop. The situation in many other parts of the country among them Bihar and Maharashtra