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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Modi Government Is the Most Anti-Farmer One in the History of Independent India, Say Activists -Anmol Nayak

Modi Government Is the Most Anti-Farmer One in the History of Independent India, Say Activists -Anmol Nayak

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published Published on Jan 31, 2018   modified Modified on Jan 31, 2018
-TheWire.in

In a green paper, organisations have pointed out how a number of promises made to farmers have not been kept.

New Delhi:
Terming the Narendra Modi government as the “most anti-farmer government in the history of independent India” for reneging on its “core” promise of revising minimum support prices (MSP), a ‘green paper’ on agriculture says the Bharatiya Janata Party’s pledge to “double farm incomes by 2022” remains a distant dream.

“The reason we are calling this government as the most anti-farmer government is because not only did the government fail to keep up to its promise, it has gone out of way to cause losses to farmers,” said activist and Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav while releasing the Green Paper, at a press conference in Delhi, adding that the recently-released Economic Survey bears this out.

“In the last four years, the level of real agricultural GDP and real agriculture revenues has remained constant,” said the survey, implying that there has been no significant growth in the agricultural GDP during the BJP-led regime yet.

The paper, which dwells on farmers’ issues in the country, is brought out by ASHA (Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture), Jai Kisan Andolan, NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, People’s Action on Employment Guarantee, Rythu Swarajya Vedika and Swaraj India.

The green paper mentions 12 points termed as the government’s “acts of omission and commission since 2014”. It elaborates on how demonetisation has deeply affected the farmer. “This ill-advised and shoddily executed move (demonetisation) could not have come at a worse time for the farming community. It was the time of Kharif harvest and start of Rabi sowing. By now the mayhem caused by demonetisation has been adequately documented, though still not acknowledged by this government,” says the paper.

Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the paper said, the BJP’s chief campaigner in 2014 and now Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be reminded of his promise to ensure 50% profit over the cost of cultivation. The promise has been blatantly broken in the past four years with the MSP being so low that in many cases, they deliver negative returns, says the paper, adding that the “story of this government in power for nearly four years is a story of betrayal of the solemn promises made to the farmers”.

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TheWire.in, 31 January, 2018, https://thewire.in/219529/modi-government-is-the-most-anti-farmer-one-in-the-history-of-independent-india-says-green-paper/


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