leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Ajay Singh said suicide of a farmer who failed to release his son kept as security against loan in Bholana village in Burhanpur is disgraceful for both Chief Minister and farmer’s son Shivraj Singh Chouhan. He appealed to provide Rs 10 lakh as compensation to the bereaved family to rescue son of the deceased farmer and repay the loan.
Ajay Singh also criticized the remark that keeping children as security is tradition of the region, made by senior BJP leader and former state president Nandkumar Singh Chouhan regarding the suicide and said that such remarks are really shameful. The remarks of Nandkumar Chouhan expose the mindset of the BJP government. In Bholana village a farmer Karkun kept his son as security against loan with his brother-in-law and after the crop were damaged he was not able to repay the loan which forced him to commit suicide.
leader of Opposition claimed that police have accepted that the son of deceased used to work at Rs 10000 per month at his uncle’s house which proves that the deceased farmer’s son was kept as security.
He questioned regarding the claims of the government of providing of zero percent interest loan to farmers and why are the farmers not getting benefit of the state which has the highest agriculture development rate of the world. In Chouhan’s third term more than 5500 farmers have committed suicide and the rate of suicide has increased by 21 percent in the past five years and information of increased rate of suicide has been provided by minister of state home of BJP has provided in the lok Sabha.