Neither ‘udta’ nor ‘padhta’ Punjab. Question is how India’s no. 1 state in 2003 tumbled

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Punjab, once India’s richest state, has slipped and fallen behind. MSP and subsidies should continue, but it needs to rediscover its entrepreneurial impulse. Punjab farmers need economic freedom, liberty of land use, not the wheat-paddy-MSP comfort. Watch ThePrint's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta's column to know more.


Correction:
- Guru Arjan Dev achieved martyrdom in Lahore, and Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed in Chandni Chowk in Delhi. Error regretted.
- Only two Anglo-Sikh wars have been fought. Error regretted.



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