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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | No farmer suicides in Chhattisgarh in 12 years: Minister -Pavan Dahat

No farmer suicides in Chhattisgarh in 12 years: Minister -Pavan Dahat

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published Published on Dec 18, 2015   modified Modified on Dec 18, 2015
-The Hindu

Farmers are going hungry and dying under burden of debt, says Congress

RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal drew sharp reactions from the Opposition in the Assembly on Thursday when he claimed that not a single farmer had killed himself due to agrarian reasons or mounting debts during the 12-year reign of the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party.

“Those who are talking of farmer suicides in Chhattisgarh are defaming the State. Chhattisgarh has won the ‘Rashtriya Krishi Karman Award’ thrice for promoting agriculture. Every scheme of the Raman Singh government is centered on farmers. Not a single farmer has committed suicide in the State due to farm-related causes or government’s apathy in the last 12 years of the BJP rule. There may be other reasons behind those suicides,” said Mr. Agrawal.

He was speaking on the adjournment motion moved by the Congress on the farmer suicides.

Mr. Agrawal’s statement also belittled the statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) earlier this year, which put Chhattisgarh at fourth place among the States with highest farmer suicides — with 443 farmer suicides in 2014.

According to the NCRB, the State witnessed 4,701 farmer suicides between 2008 and 2010.

But, Mr. Agrawal had been calling the NCRB numbers as “wrong and misleading” and based on “faulty analysis.”

The State has witnessed more than 30 farmer suicides in the last 50 days, prompting the Opposition Congress to bring an adjournment motion on Thursday. However, the Raman Singh government has been refusing to link the suicides to “farm-related causes or debt burden.”

State Congress president and Patan MLA Bhupesh Baghel claimed that more than 200 farmers killed themselves in Rajnandgaon district in the last 11 months.

The Hindu, 18 December, 2015, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/no-farmer-suicides-in-chhattisgarh-in-12-years-minister/article8001763.ece?w=alauto


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