10-26-2006, 08:24 PM
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If a Government of a State cannot protect the life amd limb of the citizens, it has no reason to continue in office.
Owning up moral responsibility, Hon'ble PM Manmohan Singh heading the UPA Government, as substitute PM, should in good conscience quit office; Hon'ble Chairperson of UPA, Sonia Gandhi should resign all positions she holds including the office of President of Indian National Congress.
<b>1,00,248 farmers have committed suicide between 1993 and 2003, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar told Parliament on May 18 this year. </b>
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main19.asp?fi...death_of_CS.asp
As Sainath notes poignantly: "The agrarian crisis is about a much wider rural distress. It's a crisis driven not by drought or natural calamity as Mr Sharad Pawar has said in the Parliament. And he didn't use the word crisis. It's a crisis driven by policy; global, national, local. Ok, why did this happen? It happened because through the reform years, we've been diverting resources, we've been robbing the poor to pay the rich. Now I cover guys who commit suicide because they're not able to get less than 10% interest on Rs 8000 crop loan. I go back to my urban middle-class home in Mumbai where I get an invitation from my bank 'buy a Mercedes Benz, no collateral at 4% interest'. So if you're buying a Mercedes Benz â unproductive expenditure â you pay virtually no interest. If you are the food producers, you're paying two to three times that interest. That's the sheer injustice of it. "
Recognizing that 70 percent of India lives in the rural areas, the Government has failed in its principal responsibility of protecting the lives of farmers whos very lives depend upon the state of the economy in rural areas.
On 19 October 2006, the journalist noted: " Suicides by farmers today are actually a symptom of a much wider crisis in India's farm and agricultural sector," Sainath said, adding that this was the result not of a natural calamity or some accident but a systematic and structured move to shift to corporate farming from small family farming practices as well as mindless deregulation that has ruined the farming community. "You get a picture of India in Vidarbha." http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2006/oct/19bspec.htm
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If a Government of a State cannot protect the life amd limb of the citizens, it has no reason to continue in office.
Owning up moral responsibility, Hon'ble PM Manmohan Singh heading the UPA Government, as substitute PM, should in good conscience quit office; Hon'ble Chairperson of UPA, Sonia Gandhi should resign all positions she holds including the office of President of Indian National Congress.
<b>1,00,248 farmers have committed suicide between 1993 and 2003, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar told Parliament on May 18 this year. </b>
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main19.asp?fi...death_of_CS.asp
As Sainath notes poignantly: "The agrarian crisis is about a much wider rural distress. It's a crisis driven not by drought or natural calamity as Mr Sharad Pawar has said in the Parliament. And he didn't use the word crisis. It's a crisis driven by policy; global, national, local. Ok, why did this happen? It happened because through the reform years, we've been diverting resources, we've been robbing the poor to pay the rich. Now I cover guys who commit suicide because they're not able to get less than 10% interest on Rs 8000 crop loan. I go back to my urban middle-class home in Mumbai where I get an invitation from my bank 'buy a Mercedes Benz, no collateral at 4% interest'. So if you're buying a Mercedes Benz â unproductive expenditure â you pay virtually no interest. If you are the food producers, you're paying two to three times that interest. That's the sheer injustice of it. "
Recognizing that 70 percent of India lives in the rural areas, the Government has failed in its principal responsibility of protecting the lives of farmers whos very lives depend upon the state of the economy in rural areas.
On 19 October 2006, the journalist noted: " Suicides by farmers today are actually a symptom of a much wider crisis in India's farm and agricultural sector," Sainath said, adding that this was the result not of a natural calamity or some accident but a systematic and structured move to shift to corporate farming from small family farming practices as well as mindless deregulation that has ruined the farming community. "You get a picture of India in Vidarbha." http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2006/oct/19bspec.htm
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