BJP should take clear stand on farm suicides

Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh will be going on a two-day "Kisan Yatra" covering five districts of suicide prone Vidarbha from where the maximum number of suicide deaths were reported among farmers. The "Yatra" will start on January 10 from Wardha, Mahatma Gandhi'''s Ashram. He will travel through the districts of Akola, Amravati and Washim before ending the next day with a rally in Yavatmal.

The "yatra" and rally are expected to focus on the "failed policies" of the UPA government, especially the failure of the Prime Minister's special package for the farmers of Vidarbha from where a large number of suicides were reported.

Earlier to this "Kisan Yatra" then BJP national president L.K. Adwani and in 2006 Rajnath Singh too to woo Vidarbha farmers took another "Kisan Yatra" but failed to follow-up the Vidarbha farm suicide issue at national level. BJP's 10 MPs and 43 MLAs from Maharashtra also failed to press demands to address on going Vidarbha agrarian crisis due lack of clarity in policies and vision of BJP.

"Now as Indian parliament has adopted new farmers policy based on the recommendations of national farmers commission (NCF) headed by Dr, MS Swaminathan, BJP should take clear stand on Vidarbha cotton farmers mass genocide as this is result of free trade and globalisation and huge subsidies given by US Govt." Kishor Tiwari, President of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) urged to Rajnath Singh.

Tiwari said that BJP national president should clear his party stand on forth coming SEZ in Vidarbha and massive on going Maharashtra govt. programme of corporate farming promotion.