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Amid videos of farmers successful Chitrakoot and different districts successful Uttar Pradesh seen lasting successful agelong queues to get fertilizers and facing terrible difficulties owed to its shortage, the Opposition connected Thursday (September 25, 2025) said farmers crossed the State are successful distress owed to the BJP government’s failed policies with the deficiency of timely availability of fertilizers, seeds and indispensable resources.
‘Hours queuing up’
In the viral videos, farmers were seen lasting successful agelong queues for hours and failing to person the fertilizers and seeds owed to shortage. “I person been lasting for implicit 5 hours since morning, but of nary help. At galore Cooperative Society centres and trader shops, artificial hoarding and achromatic selling is exacerbating the crisis. We bash not cognize wherever the fertilizer is going,” a husbandman told a media idiosyncratic astatine Aichwara successful Chitrakoot district.
“The farmers crossed Uttar Pradesh are successful dire straits owed to the BJP government’s failed policies with the deficiency of timely availability of fertilizers, seeds and indispensable resources adversely affecting their crops and livelihoods. This authorities is anti-farmer to the core. On the 1 hand, the Minister is claiming nary shortage and connected the different we are seeing specified visuals of agelong queues. Yogi [Adityanath] authorities indispensable code the concern with utmost sincerity,” said Anil Yadav, a elder U.P. Congress leader.
Balram Pratap Singh, a husbandman from Lucknow, said astatine immoderate places, lower-level officials are progressive successful helping immoderate radical with vested interests starring to agelong queues and unfulfilled demands of farmers. “The occupation is overmuch to bash with immoderate inferior level officials and dealers successful immoderate districts, who are creating hindrance. Some achromatic marketers are hoarding fertilizers and seeds, supplying it to Nepal, it is besides starring to problems,” helium added.
Unacceptable: Congress
Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai urged the authorities to resolved the situation instantly alleging that fertilizer meant for U.P. farmers are sold astatine precocious prices successful Nepal. “The authorities is advertizing that fertilizer is disposable for farmers, but for collecting order/ fertilizer, our husbandman brothers person to basal for hours, this is unacceptable. The information is fertilizer meant for our farmers successful U.P. are sold successful Nepal astatine precocious prices. It should beryllium checked and authorities indispensable supply timely enactment to our farmers. I person written to the Chief Minister implicit the contented successful the past urging contiguous intervention,” Mr. Rai told The Hindu.
