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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘53 farmers committed suicide in one year'-Ananya Dutta

‘53 farmers committed suicide in one year'-Ananya Dutta

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published Published on May 15, 2012   modified Modified on May 15, 2012

On a day the Trinamool Congress celebrated the first anniversary of the announcement of the 2011 Assembly polls results, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said here on Sunday that there has been an average of one farmer suicide every week since Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's government came to power in West Bengal.

 “Up to 2011 in States like West Bengal and Kerala there was no news of farmer suicides. But in the last one year in West Bengal, 53 farmers have committed suicide. In the one year that the Trinamool Congress-led government has been in power, at an average there has been a farmer suicide every week,” he said at a public rally. Mr. Karat pointed out that the present situation was not the result of any natural disaster, but caused by policy failures of the government. The government should have ensured procurement and lightened the debt burden of the farmers, he said Mr. Karat was also critical of the State government for its performance in other areas, particularly the issue of security of women in public places.

 The safety of women in public places used to be the pride of Bengal. But in the year that the Trinamool Congress-led government has taken over, the security of women has been under severe attack, he said.

Speaking at another public rally, former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was also critical of the State government for failing to check the attacks on women in public places.

 “Actually what has happened is that anti-social elements now believe that they are above the law because their own government is now in power. They believe they can do whatever they want, which is why so many women are under threat,” he said.

 Even as the Trinamool Congress has been celebrating the achievements of its government, Mr. Bhattacharjee said the only thing it had accomplished was “putting up street lights and repainting everything blue” commenting on two initiatives of Ms. Banerjee's government that have been widely criticised.

The Hindu, 14 May, 2012, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/article3416772.ece


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