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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Uttar Pradesh's farmers split over cane, cattle and crashing prices -Priscilla Jebaraj

Uttar Pradesh's farmers split over cane, cattle and crashing prices -Priscilla Jebaraj

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published Published on Apr 7, 2019   modified Modified on Apr 7, 2019
-The Hindu

Agrarian crisis has not dimmed Prime Minister Modi’s appeal

The sugarcane farmers gathered around a tree-shaded charpoy at Bhainswala village, a few kilometres from Shamli town in western Uttar Pradesh, share a common litany of woes — late payments, high input costs, the stray cattle menace — for which most blame the policies of the BJP government.

But when the discussion veers around to the Lok Sabha election, pandemonium breaks out among the villagers who will vote in the first phase on April 11. Some argue that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the only national leader who can protect the country. Another group yells that the Pulwama attack on a CRPF convoy last month was only being used by Mr. Modi to fuel his election rhetoric. “Show us evidence. Where is the proof?” screams a farmer, shaking his fist.

“Many people voted for the RLD (Rashtriya Lok Dal) candidate in the bypoll last year because of anger over farming issues,” admits Satinder Pal. “But this is a national election now, and we will vote on national issues, not on ganna [sugarcane].”

Not everyone agrees.

Grizzled landowner Kushal Pal says he will vote for the RLD candidate in hopes of a better deal for farmers. “We have not been paid since December, and that too only after we staged a hartal at the Shamli mill. The law says they must pay interest after 14 days’ delay, but this government is not enforcing that,” he says.

Pending payments in the village range from Rs.50,000 to Rs.15 lakh. “I have not seen one paisa this season,” agrees Harpal, a small Dalit farmer with just 1.5 acres of land. However, he is guarded about his voting choice, only saying he will go by the village consensus.

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The Hindu, 7 April, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha-2019/uttar-pradeshs-farmers-split-over-cane-cattle-and-crashing-prices/article26758694.ece?homepage=true


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