SARKAR COMMISSION-Pre-Emption of Institutional Finance-Procedural Red Herrings

the statute in its final form turns out to be different. It arrives at an agreement with the oil magnates and gets a promise that the price of groundnut oil would be reduced. The price goes up instead, but free trade in oil is allowed to continue. Again another understanding is arrived at. but the price still does not go down. Restrictions on wholesale trade in wheat are relaxed, but a levy is imposed on paddy. Farmers in only three talukas of Sural in the whole of Gujarat refused to comply with the levy. The government arrested the leaders of the farmers or khe- duts on January 2. The kheduts countered with the threat that if the leaders were not released. Gujarat would be in flames.