கடன் தொல்லையால் தற்கொலை செய்துகொண்ட 500 விவசாயிகளின்குடும்பங்களை பாஜக தத்தெடுத்துக்கொள்கிறது

விதர்பாவில் கடன் தொல்லையால் தற்கொலை செய்துகொண்ட 500 விவசாயிகளின் குடும்பங்களை பாஜக தத்தெடுத்துக்கொள்கிறது.

காங்கிரஸ் ஆட்சியில் கடந்த 2 வருடங்களில் மட்டும் 500 விவசாயிகள் விதர்பா பகுதியில் தற்கொலை செய்துகொண்டுள்ளார்கள்.

BJP to adopt 500 farmer families of Vidarbha

TN Raghunatha | Mumbai

In an effort to highlight the Congress-led Democratic Front (DF) Government's failure to address the plight of farmers in Vidarbha, the BJP plans to adopt the families of over 500 debt-trapped farmers, who committed suicide during the last couple of years.

The BJP's "adoption" move will follow party's national president Rajnath Singh's two-day tour of Vidarbha, scheduled for January 10 and 11.

Singh will commence his two-day yatra at Wardha on January 10. His yatra will pass through the farmers' suicide-hit districts of Amravati, Akola, Washim and Yavatmal. During his tour, he will stop and address meetings at Sevagram, Pulgaon, Devgaon Chowk, Dhamangaon, Chandur, Amravati, Daryapur, Akot, Akola, Mutrizapur and Karanja.

His tour will culminate at Yavatmal, where a maximum number of farmers have committed suicide in the recent years. "We expect nearly a million farmers at the rally to be addressed by our president (Rajnath Singh) at Yavatmal on January 11," State BJP chief Nitin Gadkari told mediapersons here on Monday.

During his "Kisan Yatra", Singh would focus on the farmers' issues like failure of the DF Government and the Manmohan Singh administration to accord a complete waiver of loans taken by farmers, a minimum support price of Rs 2,700 per quintal for cotton, rehabilitation of suicide-affected families and settle farmers' demands like more credit to farmers at a low interest rate of four percent per annum and expeditious completion of irrigation projects in the region.

The BJP chief would also highlight on the Vilasrao Deshmukh Government's failure to arrest the recurring farmers' suicides in the region, Gadkari said.

The BJP, like its alliance partner Shiv Sena, has been crusading for the farmers of Vidarbha region for the last few years, has meanwhile, readied plans to adopt the families of nearly 500 distressed farmers, who committed suicide during the last couple of years.