Congress will lay siege to district collectorates on Monday to protest against the state government for consistently ignoring farmers.
Congress said it had suspended its protest in tribal stronghold but insurgency-hit Bastar region keeping in view a demonstration planned by the Sarva Adivasi Samaj in Raipur. The party will reschedule its protest in Bastar which is made up of seven districts.
Congress said that due to poor Monsoon in 2017, the farmers in the state had been facing severe financial crisis as their standing crops wilted.
“The party had mounted pressure on the government and as a result it declared 96 tehsils of 21 districts in the state drought affected but despite severe drought condition the government has not provided respite to the farmers by distributing compensation to them and waiving off their loans’’, Congress said in a statement.
Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee Chief Bhupesh Baghel has instructed all the district units of the party to gherao their respective district Collectorate on Monday to highlight the farmers’ plight before the government.
Baghel has also nominated the senior leaders of the party under whose leadership the gherao programme would be conducted in the districts.