“The situation is peaceful and there are no reports of violence so far”, Collector OP Srivastava and SP Manoj Singh said. The total agricultural loan outstanding as of September 2016 is a huge Rs 12.6 lakh crore, Minister of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala told the Rajya Sabha during the Budget session this year.
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Several social activists, including Swami Agnivesh, Medha Patkar, Yogendra Yadav and ex-MLA Paras Saklecha, were stopped from entering violence-hit Mandsaur, for meeting the kin of deceased farmers, since prohibitory orders were imposed in the district.
He also denied allegations of Congress instigating the violence in the state.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan having juice from former Chief Minister Kailash Joshi to break his indefinite fast for Peace in State, in Bhopal on Sunday. I request people not to burn up the state.
In an interview, CM Chouhan said, “One thing that made me emotional was the number of our children that we lost in these protests”.
“The state government would establish “Kisan Bazaar” (farmers’ market) within the area under all municipal bodies”. He said an Agricultural Costs Marketing Commission would be constituted to fix the input cost of crops to ensure that farmers got remunerative prices for their produce.
The AAP said its leaders would meet the families of the victims to express their solidarity with them.
He said those spilling milk on the roads can not be farmers.
Families of five farmers who were killed in the police firing during the last week’s protest in Mandsaur, had last night asked him to call off his fast.
The Maharashtra government said it will write off the loans of most of its 1.34 crore farmers, and Madhya Pradesh announced a crackdown against those short-changing cultivators as the two BJP-ruled states rushed on Sunday to placate growing resentment from the agriculture sector. Madhya Pradesh is a temple to me and its people are my God. “This fast is only to divert the attention”, Congress leader P. C. Chacko told ANI.
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is going on hunger strike to try to bring peace to the region, amid the raging farmer protests.
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“Though he is trying to send a message that he is doing Gandhi-giri (using a Gandhian way), it is absolutely not so. He neither sat beneath the statue of “Bapu” nor garlanded Mahatma’s statue before launching his “nautanki”,” he added. Preparations began at BHEL Dussehra Maidan soon after Chouhan declared he will observe a fast. Kar also said that apathy towards the farming community by successive governments over the years has led to a deep crisis.
