I had personally worked very hard and contributed in the positive work done by UPA-1 for the agriculture sector and for the farmers. If one ponders in detail one will agree with me that the pro-farmer approach was a very strong point for the country to have re-elected a UPA-2. However, post the year 2009 general elections, a set of buffoons infiltrated into the office of Rahul Gandhi and that is why the Congress party was reduced to where it is today.
I am a credible source of information and a victim of a trap (for nefarious reasons) which had been set up at the epicenter of the Congress party's high command in year 2011. Attached is a year 2008 photograph of a farmers’ rally held in Odisha for my former political party -The Indian National Congress. Somewhere in mid year 2012 not only did the Congress abandon me and the likes of me in the party it went on to abandon its very own core ideology as well as the cause of the farmers of the nation.
In 2004, the Congress had two MPs from Odisha, in 2009 the number went up to six and in the year 2014 general elections, the number of Congress MPs from Odisha is zero. After 2014 counting on a pan-India way, the Congress has the lowest number of MPs ever. One must never forget that it's a good crop that makes the Sensex ring, not the vice-versa. In other words only if the farmer is happy will the nation be happy.
(The writer, who was in the Congress till a year back, is the chairman of the Smt Nandini Satpathy Memorial Foundation)