Urban Mirror Correspondent
New Delhi, March 06: The Lok Gathbandhan Party (LGP) today said that resentment is brewing among farmers in the country against the NDA government’s utter failure to address to the genuine grievances during the last five years. The LGP said the NDA has been making claims about facilities to the farming community but actually it has done nothing resulting into worsening of agrarian crisis in the country.
The spokesman of the LGP headed by former Secretary Government of India Vijay Shankar Pandey said that repeated loan waivers and now cash dole out have not been able to help solve the farmers problems who are facing sharp decline in prices of their product. The spokesman further said promise of doubling the income of farmers has also failed to take off and now BJP has been making desperate efforts to push farm sector crisis under the rug by diverting the issue. The misleading tactics of the NDA government will not work and adversely reflect in the Lok Sabha elections. The spokesman said reports coming from all over the country indicated distress sale of farm product despite minimum support prices.
The spokesman prevailing farmers’ unrest is the result of years of governmental negligence towards their problems and following only quick fix solution to help them out of crisis temporarily. The spokesman said that neither the past nor the present central government ever took a holistic view of solution to their distress. The party said farmers are most vulnerable community depending on various natural and man-made forces for sustenance. While over the years the input cost of the farm produce has drastically gone up, there has not been matching increase in sale prices which has forced the community into debt. The spokesman said in the other sector market players are able to fix the prices of their production, but the farmers are always dependent on the government remunerative prices which are mismatch. Laying stress on overhauling of present agriculture policy to solve the problems of farmers, the spokesman said mere announcements without adequate ground framework the situation will not be resolved.
