Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologized to people over three controversial farm laws that have sparked a year-long protest by farmers, pledging that the government would abolish the laws during the next session of Parliament. The government has failed to convince farmers to accept the farm laws, Modi said in his nationally-televised address on Nov. 19. “I’m here to declare that we have decided to repeal the three farm laws. We will complete all the formalities during the Parliament session that begins this month,” he said. The legislation first appeared in June as three ordinances before being approved by Parliament in September last year. These laws are the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act. They aimed to deregulate the sector by allowing farmers to sell produce to buyers …