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विदर्भात आठ शेतकऱ्यांच्या आत्महत्या 25 Feb 2009, 0025 hrs IST SMS NEWS to 58888 for latest updates - म. टा. वृत्तसेवा। वर्धा विदर्भात मोठ्या प्रमाणावर दुष्काळ पडला असून खेड्यांमध्ये पिण्याचे पाणी, जनावरांसाठी चाऱ्याची टंचाई निर्माण झाली आहे. यामुळे गांजलेल्या शेतकऱ्यांचा बजेटकडूनही अपेक्षाभंग झाल्यानंतर गेल्या तीन दिवसांत आठ शेतकऱ्यांनी आत्महत्या केल्या. राज्य मानवाधिकार आयोगाने शेतकऱ्यांच्या आत्महत्यांची गंभीर दखल घेतली आहे. विदर्भातील दुष्काळामुळे ग्रामीण भागात रोजगारीचे संकट उभे राहिले आहे. केंद सरकारकडून बजेटमध्ये निराशाच पदरी पडल्यानंतर कृष्णा साठे (नांदोरा, वर्धा), गजानन वावगे(दहिगाव, बुलढाणा), हरिश्चंद बुरांडे(विरली, भंडारा), आनंद ठाकरे (कासार, यवतमाळ), बबन डोंगरे (कुऱ्हाड, यवतमाळ), गुलाब वाघमारे (कळंब, यवतमाळ), ज्ञानराव तायडे (चमक, अमरावती) आणि वासुदेव गोमासे (आकोली, वर्धा) या आठ शेतकऱ्यांनी गेल्या तीन दिवसांत आत्महत्या केल्याच्या घटना घडल्या आहेत. या आत्महत्यांची गंभीर दखल घेत राज्य मानवाधिकार आयोगाने या प्रकरणाची सुनावणी येत्या २५ फेब्रुवारी रोजी ठेवली आहे.

या बातमीवर तुमचं मत मांडण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा.

Eight more farm suicides in vidarbha-Central relief Failed to stop farmers suicide-VJAS

Eight more farm suicides in vidarbha-Central relief Failed to stop farmers suicide-VJAS

Nagpur-dated 19th feb.,2009

only after 72 hours of interim budget claiming to give much more needed fund for tackling the agrarian crisis ,has shown it’s effect as in vidarbha which is epicenter of farmer suicide in India eight more farm suicide have been reported in last three days ,reminding administration the farmers in vidarbha who are severely drought hit needs potable water, fodder ,food and work under NAREGA ,Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) demanded today.

Eight recent farm victims of on going agrarian crisis since june 2005 which has claimed more than 5000 farm suicides even after prime minister relief package are

1.ANANDA THAKARE IN YAVATMAL

2.BABAN DONGARE IN YAVATMAL

3.JANRAO TAYADE IN AMARAVATI

4.VASUDEO GOMARE IN WARDHA

5.GULAB WAGHMARE IN YAVATMAL

6.HARISHCHANDRA BURANDE IN BHANDARA

7.GAJANAN WAVGE IN BULDHANA

8.KRISHANNA SATHE IN WARDHA

Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) informed today.

As per official figure there is no significant reduction in farm suicides in last three years

And here is chart of farm suicides in west vidarbha that gives official data that in year 2006 ,2007 and 2008 has reported 1448,1246 and 1267 cotton farmers suicides even after Rs.3750 crore PM package and Rs.71,000 crore loan waiver .in the year 2009 more than 100 farm suicides have already reported showing severity of on going agrarian crisis due to wrong approach of administration to address agrarian crisis has resulted in more farm suicides even after the relief packages are in operation, Kishore Tiwari added.

All toll claims of agriculture growth ,credit and economic reforms in rural sector are only on paper ,interim budget presented by UPA Govt. has shown rosy picture of rural India where as farmers are in agrarian crisis. ‘it is unfortunate that state failed to give fresh farm credit even after the loan waiver and debt trapped farmers in distressed area were forced to take huge crop loan from private money lenders that resulted in more farm suicides after loan waiver due to crop failure this year. this year too draught has been reported in central and south India but interim budget has not provided any fund for tackling agrarian and rural problems in that area ’ tiwari added.

There is nothing for vidarbha cotton and soya growers as they were expecting special incentive for export and increase in import duty tariff to avoid further recession in cotton and soybean . even central Govt .has extended prime minister relief package for 31 suicide prone district but there is no fund allocation for the same ‘is it single that Govt. is winding up the package’ tiwari urged.
The complete failure of NREGA and NRHM in distress area has not even discussed in interim budget more over there are toll claims of it’s success .one hand Govt. has talked about food security but they have failed to give any scheme for food crop promotion. Interim budget failed to increase the quantity for BPL families to be covered in anttodaya scheme which was promised earlier .
farmers and poor both have been ignored in the interim budget giving the hint that they are likely to be ignored in future too., tiwari said.
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कापुस खरेदीतील प्रचंड भ्रष्ट्राचाराची सी.बी.आय. मार्फत चौकशी करा - किशोर तिवारी

कापुस खरेदीतील प्रचंड भ्रष्ट्राचाराची सी.बी.आय. मार्फत चौकशी करा - किशोर तिवारी
पणन महासंघाच्या कापसाच्या आगीची डाँ. एन पी हिराणी यांनी नैतीक जबाबदारी घ्यावी
आता पांढरकवडा येथील कापसाला आगीपासुन वाचविण्याचे मुख्यमंत्र्यांना आव्हान
दि.१७ (आशिष बडवे)
यवतमाळ - पांढरकवडा येथील कापुस बाजारात प्रचंड गैरव्यवहार झाला असुन पुसद प्रमाणेच पांढरकवडा येथील कापुस जिनींगलाही आग लागण्याची तिव्र शक्यता निर्माण झाली आहे. कापुस बाजारातील गैरव्यवहार लपविण्यासाठी कापसाच्या गंजी पेटविण्याचा डाव खेळण्याची तयारी यात गुंतलेल्यांनी केली आहे. त्यामुळे पांढरकवडा येथील कापसाला आगीपासुन वाचविण्याचे कडवे आव्हान आता मुख्यमंत्र्यांसमोर उभे ठाकले आहे. दरम्यान विदर्भ जनआंदोलन समितीचे अध्यक्ष किशोर तिवारी यांनी कापुस खरेदीतील प्रचंड भ्रष्टाचाराची सी. बी. आय. मार्फत चौकशी करण्याची महत्वपुर्ण मागणी आज केली असुन पणन महासंघाच्या कापसाच्या आगीची डाँ. एन पी. हिराणी यांनी नैतीक जबाबदारी स्विकारून राजिनामा द्यावा असे किशोर तिवारी यांनी म्हटले आहे.
विदर्भात जेव्हा जेव्हा पणन महासंघाने बाजार भावापेक्षा जास्त भावाने कापुस खरेदी केला तेव्हा तेव्हा प्रचंड प्रमाणात आगी लागल्या व ज्या संकलन केंद्रावर जास्त भ्रष्टाचार झाला त्या संकलन केंद्रावर जास्त मोठी आग लागत असल्याचे चित्र पुसदच्या घटनेने पुन्हा एकदा सिध्द केले आहे. मागील आठवड्यात पणन महासंघाचे अध्यक्ष डाँ. एन. पी. हिराणी यांच्या मुळ गावी व पालक मंत्री मनोहरराव नाईक यांच्या पुसद येथे पणन महासंघाच्या कापसाला प्रचंड आग लागली व १० कोटीचा कापुस जळुन खाक झाला असे प्रसारीत करण्यात आले यापुर्वी झरी व वणी येथे आगी लागल्या असुन प्रत्येक आगीच्या पुर्वी या संकलन केंद्रावर प्रचंड प्रमाणात कापुस खरेदी मध्ये पणन महासंघाचे अधिकारी व जिनींग वाल्यांनी हजारो क्विंटलच्या कापसाची बोगस खरेदी करून केंद्र सरकारच्या नाफेडला चुना लावल्याची चर्चा रंगत आहे. प्रत्यक्षात कापुस व सरकी याची तुट लक्षात येण्यापुर्वीच सुनियोजीतपणे साका कापुसच जाळुन टाकण्याचा गोरखधंदा पणन महासंघाचे पदाधिकारी व अधिकारी करत असतांना सरकार व पोलीस सुध्दा यांना संरक्षण देत आहे. पुसद ज्या ठिकाणी पणन महासंघाचे अध्यक्ष एन पी हिराणी व पालकमंत्री मनोहरराव नाईक हे राहतात त्या ठिकाणी पणन महासंघाच्या कापसाला अभुतपुर्व आग लागते व दहा कोटी रूपयाचा कापुस भस्मसात होतो ही सर्व बाब आश्चर्याची असुन यावर सरकारने सी. बी.आई. मार्फत चौकशी करणे काळाची गरज आहे असे किशोर तिवारी यांनी म्हटले आहे. पणन महासंघाच्या भोंगळ कारभाराची व राजरोसपणे सुरू असलेल्या सुंधोगसुंधीची नैतीक जबाबदारी घेउन डाँ. एन पी हिराणी यांनी आपल्या पदाचा राजिनामा द्यावा अशी मागणी किशोर तिवारी यांनी आज केली. ते राजिनामा देत नसतील तर त्यांची पदावरून हकालपट्टी करणे गरजेचे असल्याचेही किशोर तिवारी यांनी म्हटले आहे. पांढरकवडा सह ४० संकलन केंद्रावर अंदाजे ३० टक्के कापसाची बोगस खरेदी करण्यात आली असुन ही तुट लपविण्यासाठी येत्या मार्च, एप्रील पर्यंत बहुतेक सर्व ठिकाणी कापसाच्या गंजींना व गाठींना न सरकीच्या गोदामांना आगी लागण्याची भिती किशोर तिवारी यांनी व्यक्त केली आहे
पांढरकवडा कापुस संकलन केंद्रावर १ लाख क्विंटल कापसाची बोगस खरेदी
पांढरकवडा - पांढरकवडा येथील संकलन केंद्रावर यावर्षी पणन महासंघाच्या अधिकाय्रांनी अभुतपुर्व भ्रष्टाचार केला असुन जिनींग मालकाच्या व काँटन माफीयाच्या सहाय्याने एकदा विकत घेतलेला कापुस पुन्हा पुन्हा विकत दाखवुन अंदाजे १ लाख क्विंटल कापुस कागदोपत्री खरेदी केला आहे व यामुळे सरकारला ३० कोटी रूपयाचा चुना लागत आहे हा सगळा प्रकार अभुतपुर्व असुन याचे पुरावे प्रत्यक्षात आज उपलब्ध आहे मात्र भविष्यात कापसाला किंवा गाठीला आगी लागण्याची भिती असुन सरकारी योजनेचे धिंडवडे अधिकारी व राजकीय नेते कशा प्रकारे करतात हे पणन महासंघाच्या कापुस खरेदीने जगासमोर येत आहे. कोणत्याही सामान्य माणसाला समजेल असा राजरोसपणे भ्रष्टाचार होत असतांना पणन महासंघाचे अधिकारी व प्रशासन डोळ्याला पट्टी बांधुन पाहत आहे ही दुर्भाग्याची गोष्ट आहे. पांढरकवडा संकलन केंद्रासह ज्या संकलन केंद्रावर ३ लाख क्विंटलपेक्षा जास्त कापुस खरेदी झाली त्या सर्व ठिकाणचा कापुस पोलीसांनी पंचनामा करून आपल्या ताब्यात घ्यावा व भविष्यात आगी रोखाव्या असे आवाहन सुध्दा किशोर तिवारी यांनी केले आहे.

February 12, 2009 Neo-Liberal Terrorism in India: The Largest Wave of Suicides in History -By P. SAINATH

February 12, 2009

Neo-Liberal Terrorism in India:

The Largest Wave of Suicides in History

By P. SAINATH

The number of farmers who have committed suicide in India between 1997 and 2007 now stands at a staggering 182,936. Close to two-thirds of these suicides have occurred in five states (India has 28 states and seven union territories). The Big 5 – Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh– account for just about a third of the country’s population but two-thirds of farmers’ suicides. The rate at which farmers are killing themselves in these states is far higher than suicide rates among non-farmers. Farm suicides have also been rising in some other states of the country.

It is significant that the count of farmers taking their lives is rising even as the numbers of farmers diminishes, that is, on a shrinking farmer base. As many as 8 million people quit farming between the two censuses of 1991 and 2001. The rate of people leaving farming has only risen since then, but we’ll only have the updated figure of farmers in the census of 2011.

These suicide data are official and tend to be huge underestimates, but they’re bad enough. Suicide data in India are collated by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a wing of the Ministry of Home Affairs, government of India. The NCRB itself seems to do little harm to the data. But the states where these are gathered leave out thousands from the definition of “farmer” and, thus, massage the numbers downward. For instance, women farmers are not normally accepted as farmers (by custom, land is almost never in their names). They do the bulk of work in agriculture – but are just “farmers’ wives.” This classification enables governments to exclude countless women farmer suicides. They will be recorded as suicide deaths – but not as “farmers’ suicides.” Likewise, many other groups, too, have been excluded from that list.

The spate of farm suicides – the largest sustained wave of such deaths recorded in history – accompanies India’s embrace of the brave new world of neoliberalism. Many reports on that process and how it has affected agriculture have been featured right here, on the Counterpunch site. The rate of farmers’ suicides has worsened particularly after 2001, by which time India was well down the WTO garden path in agriculture. The number of farmers’ suicides in the five years – 1997-2001 – was 78,737 (or 15,747 a year on average). The same figure for the five years 2002-06 was 87,567 (or 17,513 a year on average). That is, in the next five years after 2001, one farmer took his or her life every 30 minutes on average. The 2007 figures (detailed below) place that year, too, in the higher trend.

What do the farm suicides have in common? Those who have taken their lives were deep in debt – peasant households in debt doubled in the first decade of the neoliberal “economic reforms,” from 26 per cent of farm households to 48.6 per cent. We know that from National Sample Survey data. But in the worst states, the percentage of such households is far higher. For instance, 82 per cent of all farm households in Andhra Pradesh were in debt by 2001-02. Those who killed themselves were overwhelmingly cash crop farmers – growers of cotton, coffee, sugarcane, groundnut, pepper, vanilla. (Suicides are fewer among food crop farmers – that is, growers of rice, wheat, maize, pulses.) The brave new world philosophy mandated countless millions of Third World farmers forced to move from food crop cultivation to cash crop (the mantra of “export-led growth”). For millions of subsistence farmers in India, this meant much higher cultivation costs, far greater loans, much higher debt, and being locked into the volatility of global commodity prices. That’s a sector dominated by a handful of multinational corporations. The extent to which the switch to cash crops impacts on the farmer can be seen in this: it used to cost Rs.8,000 ?($165 today) roughly to grow an acre of paddy in Kerala. When many switched to vanilla, the cost per acre was (in 2003-04) almost Rs.150,000 ($3,000) an acre. (The dollar equals about 50 rupees.)

With giant seed companies displacing cheap hybrids and far cheaper and hardier traditional varieties with their own products, a cotton farmer in Monsanto’s net would be paying far more for seed than he or she ever dreamed they would. Local varieties and hybrids were squeezed out with enthusiastic state support. In 1991, you could buy a kilogram of local seed for as little as Rs.7 or Rs.9 in today’s worst affected region of Vidarbha. By 2003, you would pay Rs.350 -- ($7) -- for a bag with 450 grams of hybrid seed. By 2004, Monsanto’s partners in India were marketing a bag of 450 grams of Bt cotton seed for between Rs.1,650 and Rs.1,800 ($33 to $36). This price was brought down dramatically overnight due to strong governmental intervention in Andhra Pradesh, where the government changed after the 2004 elections. The price fell to around Rs.900 ($18) – still many times higher than 1991 or even 2003.

Meanwhile, inequality was the great man-eater among?the “Emerging Tiger” nations of the developing world. The predatory commercialization of the countryside devastated all other aspects of life for peasant farmer and landless workers. Health costs, for instance, skyrocketed. Many thousands of youngsters dropped out of both school and college to work on their parents’ farms (including many on scholarships). The average monthly per capita expenditure of the Indian farm household was just Rs.503 (ten dollars) by early this decade. Of that, 60 per cent roughly was spent on food and another 18 per cent on fuel, clothing and footwear.

Farmers, spending so much on food? To begin with, millions of small and marginal Indian farmers are net purchasers of food grain. They cannot produce enough to feed their families and have to work on the fields of others and elsewhere to meet the gap. Having to buy some of the grain they need on the market, they are profoundly affected by hikes in food prices, as has happened since 1991, and particularly sharply earlier this year. Hunger among those who produce food is a very real thing. Add to this the fact that the “per capita net availability” of food grain has fallen dramatically among Indians since the “reforms” began: from 510 grams per Indian in 1991, to 422 grams by 2005. (That’s not a drop of 88 grams. It’s a fall of 88 multiplied by 365 and then by one million Indians.) As prof. Utsa Patnaik, India’s top economist on agriculture, has been constantly pointing out, the average poor family has about 100 kg less today than it did just ten years ago – while the elite eat like it’s going out of style. For many, the shift from food crop to cash crop makes it worse. At the end of the day, you can still eat your paddy. It’s tough, digesting cotton. Meanwhile, even the food crop sector is coming steadily under corporate price-rigging control. Speculation in the futures markets pushed up grain prices across the globe earlier this year.

Meanwhile, the neoliberal model that pushed growth through one kind of consumption also meant re-directing huge amounts of money away from rural credit to fuel the lifestyles of the aspiring elites of the cities (and countryside, too). Thousands of rural bank branches shut down during the 15 years from 1993-2007.

Even as incomes of the farmers crashed, so did the price they got for their cash crops, thanks to obscene subsidies to corporate and rich farmers in the West, from the U.S. and EU. Their battle over cotton subsidies alone (worth billions of dollars) destroyed cotton farmers not merely in India but in African nations such as Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali, and Chad. Meanwhile, all along, India kept reducing investment in agriculture (standard neoliberal procedure). Life was being made more and more impossible for small farmers.

As costs rose, credit dried up. Debt went out of control. Subsidies destroyed their prices. Starving agriculture of investment (worth billions of dollars each year) smashed the countryside. India even cut most of the few, pathetic life supports she had for her farmers. The mess was complete. From the late-’90s, the suicides began to occur at what then seemed a brisk rate.

In fact, India’s agrarian crisis can be summed up in five words (call it Ag Crisis 101): the drive toward corporate farming. The route (in five words): predatory commercialization of the countryside. The result: The biggest displacement in our history.

Corporations do not as yet have direct control of Indian farming land and do not carry out day-to-day operations directly. But they have sewn up every other sector, inputs, outlets, marketing, prices, and are heading for control of water as well (which states in India are busy privatizing in one guise or another).

The largest number of farm suicides is in the state of Maharashtra, home to the Mumbai Stock Exchange and with its capital Mumbai being home to 21 of India’s 51 dollar billionaires and over a fourth of the country’s 100,000 dollar millionaires. Mumbai shot to global attention when terrorists massacred 180 people in the city in a grisly strike in November. In the state of which Mumbai is capital, there have been 40,666 farmers’ suicides since 1995, with very little media attention.

Farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra crossed the 4,000-mark again in 2007, for the third time in four years, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. As many as 4,238 farmers took their lives in the state that year, the latest for which data are available,?accounting?for a fourth of all the 16,632 farmers’ suicides in the country. That national total represents a slight fall from the 17,060 farm suicides of 2006. But the broad trends of the past decade seem unshaken. Farm suicides in the country since 1997 now total 182,936.

To repeat, the five worst affected states?– Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh?– account for two-thirds of all farmers’ suicides in India. Together, they saw 11,026 in 2007. Of these, Maharashtra alone accounted for?over 38 per cent. Of the Big 5, Andhra Pradesh saw a decline of 810 suicides against its 2006 total. Karnataka saw a rise of 415 over the same period. Madhya Pradesh (1,375) posted a decline of 112. But Chattisgarh’s 1,593 farm suicides mean an increase of 110 over 2006. Specific factors in these states nourish the problem. These are zones of highly diversified, commercialized agriculture where cash crops dominate. Water stress has been a common feature, and gets worse with the use of technologies such as Bt seed that demand huge amounts of water. High external inputs and input costs are also common, as also the use of chemicals and pesticides. Mindless deregulation dug a lot of graves, lit a lot of pyres.

Maharashtra registered a fall of 215 farm suicides in 2007. However, no other state even touches the 3,000 mark. And AP (with 1,797) and Karnataka (2,135) – the next two worst hit states – together do not cross Maharashtra’s 4,000-plus mark. A one-year dip of 221 occurred in 2005 too, in Maharashtra, only to be followed by an all-time high of 4,453 suicides in 2006. The state’s trend shows no turnaround and remains dismal.

Maharashtra’s 2007 figure of 4,238 follows one and a half years of farm “relief packages” worth around Rs.5,000 crore ($1 billion) and a prime ministerial visit in mid-2006 to the distressed Vidharbha region. The state has also seen a plethora of official reports, studies and commissions of inquiry over 2005-07, aimed at tackling the problem. However, the 12,617 farm suicides in the same years is its worst ever total for any three-year period since the state began recording such data in 1995. Indeed, farm suicides in Maharashtra since that year have crossed the 40,000 mark. The structural causes of that crisis seem untouched.

Nationally, farmers’ suicides between 2002-07 were worse than for the years 1997-2001. NCRB data for the whole country now exists from 1997-2007. In the five years till 2001, there were 15,747 farmers’ suicides a year on average. For the six years from 2002, that average is 17,366 farmers’ suicides each year. The increase is distressingly higher in the main crisis states.

P. Sainath is the rural affairs editor of The Hindu and is the author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought. A regular contributor to CounterPunch, he can be reached at psainath@vsnl.com.

Two faces of BJP : Narendra Modi’s strong globalization stands makes BJP Resolution on Agriculture meaningless.

Two faces of BJP : Narendra Modi’s strong globalization stands makes BJP Resolution on Agriculture meaningless.

NAGPUR -8^th feb.2009

Gujarat chief minister and prime minister of NDA in waiting(that’s also hidden list) Narendra Modi has come out with second face of up coming BJP only after 12 hours of passing the one of socialist and in line Gandhian philosophy of rural India resolution on Agriculture by national executive Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) today in Nagpur meet as he has advocated very strongly free trade and globalization which has resulted mass genocide of cotton farmers ,country has not forgotten the past when NDA has lifted quantitative restriction of import in 2004 when BJP president rajnath singh was agriculture minister ,much which before the WTO asked and huge import cotton bells from America on very cheaper rate due to heavy US subsidies to cotton farmers has completely collapsed cotton economy of vidarbha that’s has brought this agrarian crisis. If this is true face of BJP then what about it’s resolution which have been enlisted as farmers rights which are contradictory to the basic conditions WTO and free trade .BJP has assured that NDA will give

1. Minimum Support Price to be fixed after adding 50 per cent over production cost.

2. Minimum Support Price for all crops.

3. Provision of subsidy directly to farmers. Agricultural loans to be provided at the rate of four per cent Interest.

4. Farm income guarantee insurance scheme for small farmers.

5. Adequate power supply for agriculture.

6. Water for every field and work for every hand.

7. Pension for old age farmers.

8. Loans of all farmers to be waived off under the principle of equality

9. Implementation of the recommendations of the Agricultural Commission.

The resolution of agriculture was really good opening to change the image of BJP is as right wing hindu fundamentalist party to party which believes in social equality and justice but Narendra Modi speech has given very wrong single as promoting globalisation and free trade will further aggravate agrarian crisis will invite more farmers to kill themselves ,hence BJP should come out with official stand over the issue, ,Kishore tiwari of Vidarbha jan andolan samiti (VJAS) urged in press note today.

VJAS president kishor tiwari has requested all political parties to protect Indian farming community from free trade and menace of MNC,s which are mainly responsible for 1,82,000 farmers suicides since 1998 in India.“we have to stop this on going farm suicides ,we hope that all parties will take same stand on agriculture so that we can forget the very sad era of this farmers suicides which has witnessed more than 1,82,000 farm victims due wrong policies of state ” tiwari added.

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Two faces of BJP : Narendra Modi’s strong globalization stands makes BJP Resolution on Agriculture meaningless.

Two faces of BJP : Narendra Modi’s strong globalization stands makes BJP Resolution on Agriculture meaningless. NAGPUR -8th feb.2009 Gujarat chief minister and prime minister of NDA in waiting(that’s also hidden list) Narendra Modi has come out with second face of up coming BJP only after 12 hours of passing the one of socialist and in line Gandhian philosophy of rural India resolution on Agriculture by national executive Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) today in Nagpur meet as he has advocated very strongly free trade and globalization which has resulted mass genocide of cotton farmers ,country has not forgotten the past when NDA has lifted quantitative restriction of import in 2004 when BJP president rajnath singh was agriculture minister ,much which before the WTO asked and huge import cotton bells from America on very cheaper rate due to heavy US subsidies to cotton farmers has completely collapsed cotton economy of vidarbha that’s has brought this agrarian crisis. If this is true face of BJP then what about it’s resolution which have been enlisted as farmers rights which are contradictory to the basic conditions WTO and free trade .BJP has assured that NDA will give 1. Minimum Support Price to be fixed after adding 50 per cent over production cost. 2. Minimum Support Price for all crops. 3. Provision of subsidy directly to farmers. Agricultural loans to be provided at the rate of four per cent Interest. 4. Farm income guarantee insurance scheme for small farmers. 5. Adequate power supply for agriculture. 6. Water for every field and work for every hand. 7. Pension for old age farmers. 8. Loans of all farmers to be waived off under the principle of equality 9. Implementation of the recommendations of the Agricultural Commission. The resolution of agriculture was really good opening to change the image of BJP is as right wing hindu fundamentalist party to party which believes in social equality and justice but Narendra Modi speech has given very wrong single as promoting globalisation and free trade will further aggravate agrarian crisis will invite more farmers to kill themselves ,hence BJP should come out with official stand over the issue, ,Kishore tiwari of Vidarbha jan andolan samiti (VJAS) urged in press note today. VJAS president kishor tiwari has requested all political parties to protect Indian farming community from free trade and menace of MNC,s which are mainly responsible for 1,82,000 farmers suicides since 1998 in India.“we have to stop this on going farm suicides ,we hope that all parties will take same stand on agriculture so that we can forget the very sad era of this farmers suicides which has witnessed more than 1,82,000 farm victims due wrong policies of state ” tiwari added. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please arrange to publish this press note Thanking you, Yours faithfully, For VIDARBHA JANANDOLAN SAMITI KISHORE TIWARI PRESIDENT. kishortiwari@gmail.com contact-09422108846

NAGPUR -8^th feb.2009

Gujarat chief minister and prime minister of NDA in waiting(that’s also hidden list) Narendra Modi has come out with second face of up coming BJP only after 12 hours of passing the one of socialist and in line Gandhian philosophy of rural India resolution on Agriculture by national executive Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) today in Nagpur meet as he has advocated very strongly free trade and globalization which has resulted mass genocide of cotton farmers ,country has not forgotten the past when NDA has lifted quantitative restriction of import in 2004 when BJP president rajnath singh was agriculture minister ,much which before the WTO asked and huge import cotton bells from America on very cheaper rate due to heavy US subsidies to cotton farmers has completely collapsed cotton economy of vidarbha that’s has brought this agrarian crisis. If this is true face of BJP then what about it’s resolution which have been enlisted as farmers rights which are contradictory to the basic conditions WTO and free trade .BJP has assured that NDA will give

1. Minimum Support Price to be fixed after adding 50 per cent over production cost.

2. Minimum Support Price for all crops.

3. Provision of subsidy directly to farmers. Agricultural loans to be provided at the rate of four per cent Interest.

4. Farm income guarantee insurance scheme for small farmers.

5. Adequate power supply for agriculture.

6. Water for every field and work for every hand.

7. Pension for old age farmers.

8. Loans of all farmers to be waived off under the principle of equality

9. Implementation of the recommendations of the Agricultural Commission.

The resolution of agriculture was really good opening to change the image of BJP is as right wing hindu fundamentalist party to party which believes in social equality and justice but Narendra Modi speech has given very wrong single as promoting globalisation and free trade will further aggravate agrarian crisis will invite more farmers to kill themselves ,hence BJP should come out with official stand over the issue, ,Kishore tiwari of Vidarbha jan andolan samiti (VJAS) urged in press note today.

VJAS president kishor tiwari has requested all political parties to protect Indian farming community from free trade and menace of MNC,s which are mainly responsible for 1,82,000 farmers suicides since 1998 in India.“we have to stop this on going farm suicides ,we hope that all parties will take same stand on agriculture so that we can forget the very sad era of this farmers suicides which has witnessed more than 1,82,000 farm victims due wrong policies of state ” tiwari added.

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Please arrange to publish this press note

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

For VIDARBHA JANANDOLAN SAMITI

KISHORE TIWARI

PRESIDENT.

kishortiwari@gmail.com

contact-09422108846