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As farm debt drives Punjab farmers to suicide, loan waiver demand set to gain momentum -Vikas Vasudeva

-The Hindu

Farmer outfits in Punjab say they will be forced to start an agitation against the State AAP government if a complete farm loan debt waiver is not announced shortly

A recent study on farmers’ suicide in Punjab by Ludhiana-based Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has revealed that in six districts of the State, as many as 9,291 farmers have died by suicide between the years 2000-2018 and around 88% of the suicide cases were a fallout of farm-related debts.

The relatively higher number of debt-related suicides is all set to bring the issue of ‘farm loan debt waiver’ yet again into the spotlight in the near future as farmer outfits across the State are planning to corner the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government on their long-pending demand to announce a complete farm loan debt waiver.

“Farmers have been demanding a complete loan waiver for long but successive governments have not paid any heed towards it. The current AAP government’s attitude towards farm loan waivers is also disappointing. If the government’s apathy towards farmers continued, then farmers of different outfits will join hands and start agitation against the State government. If by September 15, the government doesn’t take a decisive step on loan waiver, we will under the umbrella of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) begin our struggle for loan waiver,” Jagmohan Singh, general secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta (Dakaunda) told The Hindu on Sunday.

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