The national spokesperson of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and State coordinator Alok Agrawal while addressing a State level brainstorming camp of the party’s farmers’ association explained the deteriorating condition of farmers under the climatic conditions and the discriminatory attitude of the Government, to his fellow party workers.
Agarwal said that on the one side, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan call themselves farmers’ sons, while on the other, their policies have led the farmers to the verge of committing suicide.
He said as per the Government records more than three lakh farmers have already committed suicide and in Madhya Pradesh every day four farmers, at an average, attempt suicide.
Due to drought and hailstorm, crops have been ruined, yet Shivraj Singh and BJP leaders are organizing grand functions. At the home town of Minister Gopal Bhargav, Garhakota, a programme was organized where 101 dancers are performing, added Agrawal.
Agrawal said that the AAP government in Delhi is compensating the farmers at the rate of Rs 20,000 per acre, while in MP, the BJP government is compensating only at the rate of Rs 2,000 per acre.
While addressing the brainstorming camp, State president of AAP Akshay Hunka said that the farmers are deprived of any facility and they have no fertilizers, no seeds and no electricity or water. Hunka also presented few techniques in front of the fellow party workers to conserve water that can be developed at village level.
The brainstorming camp was attended by the state secretary of AAP’s farmers’ union Jagpreet Singh Bhogal, the coordinator of state mahila shakti Chitrupa Palit, state spokesperson Vikrant Rai and Pankaj Singh and Satna observer Atul Mishra
were present. In the brainstorming camp, representatives of 25 districts participated and pledged to reach the AAP’s farmers union to distant villages.