Motivate with the response received over the farmers issues in the State, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) would now hold demonstration at the block levels over the farmers issue in the state on May 12. The Party also announced to provide financial assistance to the farmers and their families in case of their family members would suicide related to debt or damage to crops due to unseasonal rains.
RsRsWe had decided that not just they would pursue the cases of the farmers to ensure that would get compensation against the damage to their crops due to untimely rains but will also forward some monetary help directly”, disclosed UPCC president, Nirmal Khatri, while informing about minutes of the meeting of senior officers held here on Monday morning.
However, this financial help would be only forwarded in those cases which will occurred after the above announcement of the UPCC. RsRsNo, we would not give any monetary help to the farmers who had already committed suicide but now since a decision in this regard was taken in today’s meeting so from now onwards, they would forward financial assistance to the farmers”, Khatri clarified while answering whether they would give financial help to all the farmers who had already committed suicide in this season. Khatri clarified that this monetary help will be given only after the local leaders will ascertain that the death occurred due to damage to crop following unseasonal rains or where the farmers failed to clear his debt due to the similar reasons.
Khatri further confirmed that they had decided in principle to contest the coming Panchayat elections in the state. He said that the party would contest the panchayat elections besides will go to the block level by holding agitation on farmers issue.
According to Khatri, the Party will hold demonstration over the Centre as well as state government’s apathy towards the farmers reeling under acute problem after unseasonal rains at all the block headquarters on May 12. The decision to hold the block level agitation was taken during a meeting of the senior leaders of the party here on Monday which was attended by the legislators, former presidents and others.
Khatri told media persons here said that the Party leaders have been asked to create awareness among the people at the block level to get the mass support in the agitation.” We have asked the party leaders to aware the people about the anti-farmers policies of the Centre by amending the land Acquisition Act besides the UP government too have failed to give adequate financial help to the affected farmers,” Khatri said. There are 820 blocks in UP.
UP Congress had already held padyatra over the farmers issue between April 9 and 17 last at all the 403 assembly segments in the state. Congress held a successful Kisan rally in New Delhi on April 19 where party president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi were the main speakers.