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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Another farmer kills self in Bengal by Saugar Sengupta

Another farmer kills self in Bengal by Saugar Sengupta

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published Published on Jan 30, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 30, 2012

Agrarian crisis continued in Bengal with farmers continuing to commit suicide after failing to sell their crops. The latest such incident was reported from Malda district in North Bengal, police said.

Dayal Chandra Burman a middle-aged peasant committed suicide on Sunday morning at Gajole block in Malda district after he failed to repay Rs 30,000 taken as loan from moneylenders for paddy cultivation. He failed to sell his crops for the prescribed procurement price of Rs 1,080 sources said.

Burman’s death takes the farmer suicide toll to 29 in the past 7 months with Malda district witnessing three such cases in the past two months or so. Apart from Malda such cases have taken place in Hooghly, Howrah, Burdwan, Murshidabad and Bankura districts with Burdwan being the worst sufferer.

When contacted State Agriculture Minister and Singur MLA Rabindranath Bhatt-acharya however said he had no such reports blaming the “inflated reports of suicide cases” to the ongoing “disinformation campaign carried on by the Opposition” in the State.

Incidentally, CM Mamata Banerjee had also earlier denied suicide reports claiming the deaths thus occurring were related to reasons other than agricultural reasons. However ,later she acknowledged that there was only one death after State Governor MK Narayanan denounced farmer deaths and urged the Government to take steps towards controlling the situation.

The Governor’s statements had however led to some kind of coldness in the relationship between him and the Chief Minister officials said.

Meanwhile, the Pradesh Congress an ally of the Trinamool Congress issued an ultimatum to the State Government asking it to immediately take action by sending an all-party fact-finding team to the villages or face agitation.

“We have urged the CM to send an all-party team to the villages were such incidents are taking place because a civilized State cannot allow the farmers to commit suicide as they are doing now,” PCC president Pradip Bhattacharya said adding his party would start movements if the Government immediately did not take and action. Banerjee who had earlier refused to send all-party teams to the villages however was in no mood to relent, Trinamool sources said.

At another level Opposition Left Front on Sunday decided to hold a village bandh on February 28, the day when an all-India industry bandh had been called by the group.

“It is obnoxious and alarming to sit and watch the procession of farmers committing suicides,” former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said adding if this trend continued the farmers would soon stop investing in cultivation of food crops which could finally lead to food crisis in the State.

“It is the Trinamool Congress which acquiesced to the Central Government’s proposal to deregulate the fertiliser prices leading to such crisis. Today the result is for all to see. In our time the farmers could sell their crops through the NGOs and panchayats but today the Government has discontinued whatever good things we introduced and the situation has come to such a pass. This cannot be allowed to go on for long,” Bhattacharya said.


The Pioneer, 29 January, 2012, http://dailypioneer.com/nation/38788-another-farmer-kills-self-in-bengal.html


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