Heated debate in Council over delay in giving relief to rain-hit farmers

Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress engaged successful a heated statement successful the Legislative Council connected Tuesday implicit alleviation to farmers who suffered losses owed to dense rains.

While the members successful the Opposition benches accused the State authorities of ignoring the plight of farmers, the members successful the treasury benches maintained that the BJP was politicising the contented alternatively of responding to the farmers’ issues.

Leader of the Opposition Chalavadi Narayanaswamy stated that the State government’s appraisal of harvest nonaccomplishment caused by dense rains was incorrect. The BJP, helium claimed, had collected accusation from the farmers, and the full grade of cultivation onshore affected by dense rains was 38.71 lakh hectares, portion the government’s fig was lone 14.58 lakh hectares.

Former Minister C.T. Ravi claimed that portion determination had been 85,000 incidents of harvest nonaccomplishment owed to wildlife, the authorities released alleviation lone successful 35,000 cases. He besides took objection to stopping the State’s contributions nether the Prime Minister’s Fasal Bima Yojana. “When the BJP was successful power, the State contributed ₹4,000, too ₹6,000 from the Centre. The authorities should person continued the publication for the payment of the farmers,” helium opined.

Further, helium said that Karnataka stood 2nd successful the state successful presumption of farmers’ suicides. In the past 2 years 2,422 farmers committed termination and the authorities had released compensation for 941 families.

He pointed retired that the youths of the cultivation families were not getting brides for marriages. “A mutt precocious invited applications for a matrimonial meet, and it received 60,000 applications from farmers’ families. The concern is grim, and it shows the plight of cultivation families,” helium added.

During the debate, Leader of the House N.S. Boseraju, Agriculture Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy, Sugar Minister Shivanand Patil, Labour Minister Santosh Lad and different members of the Congress intervened to allege that the BJP leaders were politicising the issue. They had nary motivation close to question the State government’s committedness to farmers’ welfare, arsenic they had ne'er raised their dependable against the injustices of the Centre, they argued.

The Ministers and members of the Congress enactment took beardown objection erstwhile Mr. Ravi commented that the Congress authorities successful the State had opened “MLAs’ procurement centre”, alternatively of maize procurement centres’, referring to the enactment enactment successful the ruling party.

The State authorities is expected to springiness its reply to the statement connected Wednesday.