Instead of eliminating this system, as expected, Modi’s government has augmented subsidies for sugar exports to support higher output, raised import duties on sugar to discourage foreign competition, and increased the percentage of sugar-based ethanol that must be blended with petrol. His motivation is not difficult to discern: his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hopes that such concessions will help it to wrest control of Maharashtra, India’s main sugar-producing state, from the UPA in the upcoming state assembly election.
莫迪政府并没有如预期那样取消这一制度，而是扩大了糖出口补贴以支持提高产量，提高糖进口关税遏制外国竞争者，并提高汽油中糖基乙醇添加百分比。他这样做的动机不难判断：他的印度人民党（BJP）希望这样的让步有助于其与UPA争夺即将到来的印度糖主产邦马哈拉施特拉邦议会选举的控制权。