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Farmers’ suicides: CPI(M) outfit organises rally in Delhi on Monday

-The Hindu Business Line

New Delhi: All India Kisan Sabha, the farmers’ outfit of CPI (M), has decided to hold a protest of the family members of farmers who committed suicide in the last one year. Families of about 100 farmers, who committed suicide, will sit in front of Parliament to protest the policies of the Narendra Modi Government on Monday.

Alarming rise

CPI (M) Polit Bureau member and AIKS General Secretary Hannan Mollah told reporters here that since Modi assumed power, the rate of suicide has been increased by 26 per cent according to the Data of National Statistical Office. “The Land Acquisition Ordinance has exposed the pro-Corporate and anti-farmer character of the NDA Government.

“The PM has betrayed his promise of providing 50 per cent above cost of production as minimum support price for agricultural produce,” said Mollah, a former MP. He added that the “unprecedented agrarian distress” has intensified the pauperisation of the peasantry, migration from countryside to urban centres and metropolis, decline of income and employment to rural households, widening income inequality and large-scale land alienation.

The two-day protest sit-in will demand a review the impact of the economic policies on agriculture and the peasantry. The farmers’ families will demand a minimum 10 lakh as relief to the suicide affected farmers’ families and waiver all outstanding loans of all families of farmers who committed suicide. The AIKS has also demanded that a Debt Relief Commission should be set up along the lines of Kerala to address the situation. “The two-and-a-half decades of the implementation of the neo-liberal economic policies has caused untold suffering for the peasantry and for most part of the period India has witnessed an acute agrarian crisis where a vast majority of them have been in extreme distress,” Mollah said. He added people from various walks of life will address the sit-in. The press conference was also attended by AIKS leaders NK Shukla, Vijoo Krishnan and P Krishnaprasad.

The AIKS leaders said none of the victims’ family members are their cadre and the outfit is working as a platform for them to air their grievances. They said it was for the first time in the last 25 years, such a protest meeting of farmer’s victims is being organised in Delhi.