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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Marching against apathy -Ajay Vir Jakhar

Marching against apathy -Ajay Vir Jakhar

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published Published on Mar 17, 2018   modified Modified on Mar 17, 2018
-The Indian Express

The country’s politics has ignored the farmers. Perhaps it is time they change the country’s politics

Farmers in villages across the country have felt demeaned and disturbed by the insensitivity of successive governments at the Centre and in the states. The same anguish was felt by the agriculturists who walked more than 160 km from Nashik to Mumbai. The country’s politics has ignored farmers. Perhaps it is time that farmers change the politics of the country.

The farmers’ march was not a fallout of a single event. They have been pushed into the streets by the cumulative effects of droughts, falling yields — aggravated by low farm-gate prices — purchases not made at the announced MSP, unkept promises of compensation for the failure of the cotton crop, which was attacked by the pink bollworm, the infamous notebandi and disruption of cash flow as a result of the cow slaughter ban. They were opposing land acquisition for the Samruddh Maha Marg and were struck with disbelief at a government report that blamed them for the pesticide-induced deaths in Maharashtra. Do note that the farmers’ feelings were not about anger, hate and rage.

The on-farm distress has been compounded by feelings of hurt and betrayal. The heartless government in Mumbai is no better than the Communists who chose to give each marching farmer a red party flag affixed to a stick instead of giving them a pair of slippers each. The visual impact would have made Goebbles proud. The sight of bruised and bleeding farmers’ feet was not enough to move the young Maharashtra chief minister from the comfort of his chair and meet the agitating agriculturists halfway.

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The Indian Express, 17 March, 2018, http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/maharashtra-farmers-protest-marching-against-apathy-5100510/


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