Summary:
Lucknow, Dec 6 (PTI) Congress workers on Monday staged demonstrations all over Uttar Pradesh to protest the alleged shortage of fertilizer for farmers in the state.
The Congress workers staged demonstrations in all UP districts, raising the slogan "khaad do varna UP chhodo" (give fertiliser or else leave UP), UPCC president Ajay Kumar Lallu said in a party statement here.
There are long queues of farmers before fertilizer shops all over the state but they are not getting the vital ingredient for farming, Lallu alleged, adding they are forced to purchase fertiliser from the black market at higher rates.
The input cost for farming has already gone up because of the rise in diesel prices, said Lallu, alleging that the shortage of fertilizer due to the misgovernance of the Yogi Adityanath government has further added to the farmers’ woes.
Lallu also alleged that some farmers in the Bundelkhand region lost their lives standing in queues before fertilizer shops in October.
A farmer had died while standing in a queue for two days at a fertiliser shop in the Jakhlaun area of the Lalitpur district, he recalled.