Agriculture
Lakhimpur Kheri violence carried out using 'leftist methods' and people were mercilessly beaten to death, something farmers cannot do: BKS. (PTI)
Farmers not involved in Lakhimpur Kheri violence; people from various political parties behind it: RSS-affiliated farmer union BKS. (PTI)
The video: https://twitter.com/i/status/1445076493114114051
https://twitter.com/i/status/1445089328145698817
गाड़ी छोड़कर भागते BJP मंत्री के बेटे का वीडियो लीक, सारा सच सामने आ गया https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gux3c_3G4Lg Oct 5, 2021
Sania Ahmad @SaniaAhmad1111
If Umar Khalid's speech is responsible for Delhi "riots"
How is ML Khattar's speech openly inciting violence not responsible for Lakhimpur?
Why is not seditious?
Arfa Khanum Sherwani @khanumarfa
It has been more than 24 hours since 8 people died in Lakhimpur violence.
Have you heard from the Prime Minister of India yet ?
What takes for the Prime Minister to speak ? What ?
Facts @BefittingFacts
cropped pic of minister's son go run his propaganda. Driver is wearing full sleeve and minister's son is wearing half sleeve but Kapri cropped the pic.
उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार ने लखीमपुर खीरी हिंसा में मारे गए चार किसानों के परिवारों को 45-45 लाख रुपये की वित्तीय मदद और परिवार के एक सदस्य को सरकारी नौकरी देने का ऐलान किया.
राज्य सरकार ने इसके साथ ही सोमवार को घोषणा की कि हाईकोर्ट के एक सेवानिवृत्त न्यायाधीश मामले की जांच करेंगे. इसके साथ ही घायल किसानों को दस-दस लाख रुपये की मुआवजा राशि दी जाएगी.
केंद्रीय गृह राज्य मंत्री अजय कुमार मिश्रा का कुछ दिनों पहले किसानों को दी गई चेतावनी का वीडियो सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल हो रहा है, जिसमें उन्हें यह कहते सुना जा सकता है कि ‘सामना करो आकर, हम आपको सुधार देंगे, दो मिनट लगेगा केवल.’ इसी के बाद लखीमपुर खीरी ज़िले में बीते तीन अक्टूबर को प्रदर्शन कर रहे किसानों के समूह पर कथित तौर पर केंद्रीय गृह राज्य मंत्री के बेटे द्वारा वाहन चढ़ा देने से चार किसानों समेत आठ लोगों की मौत हुई है
Lakhimpur massacre: Even after two years, families of martyred farmers are suffocating under police guard
https://followupstories.com/politics/two-years-of-lakhimpur-kheri-farmers-killing-and-justice-out-of-sight/ by Imtiaz Ahmed
Google Translate of full article..
Two years is a long time to change a small town; To remember some and to forget some; To acquit some and to punish others. Even in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, after October 3, 2021, everything is not the same as it was that day – when four farmers and a journalist protesting against a Union Minister were brutally crushed to death by a jeep, in which The minister's son was riding. In retaliation, the farmers beat the driver of the vehicle and two political workers to death. There were a total of eight deaths and the paths of dozens of lives were forever changed.
“We have no money, moneylenders are not ready to wait. What should we do? We can’t even afford to take onions to the market. You are just thinking about yourself, Modi saheb. You must provide the guaranteed price for the produce… The finance guys threaten, and the patpedhi (cooperative society) officers abuse. Who should we go for justice?… Today, I am forced to commit suicide because of your inaction.”
Those were the words of Dashrath Lakshman Kedari before he died by suicide last year in Pune district of Maharashtra. His is one among the 1,00,474 suicides in the farming sector in the Narendra Modi years (2014-2022), as per the recently released National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report. This amounts to nearly 30 suicides per day in these nine years. And yet we heard BJP MP Nishikant Dubey claiming that no farmer has died under Modi by suicide. “Did the opposition ever have a single discussion about farmers’ suicides in the last eight years?” he asked, “If they didn’t, it means farmers are not dying by suicide.” https://thewire.in/agriculture/average-30-farmer-suicides-per-day-in-modi-govt-years-points-to-a-systemic-apathy
Declining public investments, privatisation of key industries, opening up to external trade, decline in state subsidies and shrinking formal agricultural credit all contributed to the long winter for farmers in India who found it increasingly difficult to compete with the heavily subsidised imports. Add to this the monopolistic practices of agro-business giants like Monsanto, the expensive, out of reach genetically modified seeds, fertilisers and insecticides that raised inputs cost by leaps.
by Anirban Bhattacharya, Pranay Raj and Nancy Pathak
18/12/2023
Maharashtra BJP MP Gopal Shetty compares farmers' suicide to 'fashion trend', sparks row https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/maharashtra-bjp-mp-gopal-shetty-compares-farmers-suicide-to-fashion-trend-sparks-row-309345-2016-02-18
BJP MP Gopal Shetty said "Not all farmers' suicides happen due to unemployment and starvation. A fashion is going on. A trend is on," "If Maharashtra government is giving Rs 5 Lakh rupees as compensation, then some other government in neighbouring state is giving Rs 7 Lakh," he said. "There's a competition in these people in giving money (compensation) to farmers,"