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Suicides in Chhattisgarh: Farmer organisations demand to set up judicial commission

| Wednesday | 28th June, 2017

"Farmers are under tremendous pressure and are facing huge loss and are ending their lives. "For this, government should initiate talks with farmers' to discuss and decide the solutions to the issue," Verma said.Echoing this voice, Sanket Thakur, Gautam Bandopadhyay and Rupan Chandrakar of Chhattisgarh Kisan Majdur Mahasangh said that the government was trying to divert the reason of suicides towards social stigmas and family disputes. BJP minister should also stop making insensitive comments over farmers' suicides and chief minister should soon take a decision over waving off loans," Thakur said.Meanwhile, the farmers' organizations are also planning to participate in an infinite strike scheduled from July 3 by Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh at New Delhi.However, official sources in BJP said that the party officers have called for a meeting on Thursday with BJP Kisan Morcha national president Virendra Singh and chief minister Raman Singh. RAIPUR: Alleging that Chhattisgarh government was trying to hush up the issue of farmer suicide - which has crossed a toll of about ten deaths within a fortnight - in the state; Chhattisgarh Pragatisheel Kisan Sangathan has demanded that government take serious note of the suicides and set up a judicial commission to probe the exact reason of such incidents.Another farmer committed suicide at a village in Dhamtari district on Sunday.According to Rajkumar Gupta, convener of Chhattisgarh Pragatisheel Kisan Sangathan (CPKS), 10 farmers have committed suicide since June 12 in several districts due to reasons related to crop loss, heavy loan, not able to meet financial requirements in family and others. "Farmers here were hopeful that since governments of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states have announced of waving off the farmers' loan, state would too take some decision in our favour, but the insensitivity and disregard towards farmers by the government has forced farmers to commit suicide," Gupta said.CPKS president IK Verma has refuted the clarifications made by state government and has demanded on behalf of the organization that instead of brushing the issue under the carpet, the government should wake up to farmers' suicide and form a judicial commission to find the root cause and a solution to it, else the number of deaths would continue rising.

RAIPUR: Alleging that Chhattisgarh government was trying to hush up the issue of farmer suicide - which has crossed a toll of about ten deaths within a fortnight - in the state; Chhattisgarh Pragatisheel Kisan Sangathan has demanded that government take serious note of the suicides and set up a judicial commission to probe the exact reason of such incidents.Another farmer committed suicide at a village in Dhamtari district on Sunday.According to Rajkumar Gupta, convener of Chhattisgarh Pragatisheel Kisan Sangathan (CPKS), 10 farmers have committed suicide since June 12 in several districts due to reasons related to crop loss, heavy loan, not able to meet financial requirements in family and others."Farmers here were hopeful that since governments of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states have announced of waving off the farmers' loan, state would too take some decision in our favour, but the insensitivity and disregard towards farmers by the government has forced farmers to commit suicide," Gupta said.CPKS president IK Verma has refuted the clarifications made by state government and has demanded on behalf of the organization that instead of brushing the issue under the carpet, the government should wake up to farmers' suicide and form a judicial commission to find the root cause and a solution to it, else the number of deaths would continue rising."For this, government should initiate talks with farmers' to discuss and decide the solutions to the issue," Verma said.Echoing this voice, Sanket Thakur, Gautam Bandopadhyay and Rupan Chandrakar of Chhattisgarh Kisan Majdur Mahasangh said that the government was trying to divert the reason of suicides towards social stigmas and family disputes."Farmers are under tremendous pressure and are facing huge loss and are ending their lives. BJP minister should also stop making insensitive comments over farmers' suicides and chief minister should soon take a decision over waving off loans," Thakur said.Meanwhile, the farmers' organizations are also planning to participate in an infinite strike scheduled from July 3 by Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh at New Delhi.However, official sources in BJP said that the party officers have called for a meeting on Thursday with BJP Kisan Morcha national president Virendra Singh and chief minister Raman Singh.

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