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Coming down heavy connected the State government, Mysuru MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar has said that the Congress was pursuing an ‘’anti-farmer’’ docket and adopting a confrontationist attack towards the Union government.
Speaking to mediapersons present connected Wednesday, Mr. Yaduveer said though Prime Minister Narendra Modi had floated galore schemes to revive agriculture and enactment up the fortunes of the farmers, the State authorities was not extending cooperation. He said agriculture, being a State subject, immoderate policies and programmes related to it had to beryllium implemented by the State government.
‘’Unfortunately successful Karnataka, the Congress is non-cooperative, and alternatively of resolving administrative oregon method issues done talks, it is pursuing a confrontationist attack and is contented blaming the Centre’’, helium added. As a result, payment of farmers was being undermined, Mr. Yaduveer alleged.
He said the Viksit Bharat imaginativeness of Prime Minister Modi was rooted successful strengthening agriculture and reviving the fortunes of farmers, and cited examples of however the budgetary enactment for the workplace assemblage had accrued implicit the years compared to the UPA era. As farmers constituted 60% of the country’s workforce, much should beryllium done for them, and hence the BJP was not lone supporting agriculture but besides the allied sectors, helium said.
Though determination was a gyration successful the making successful the agriculture sector, Mr. Wadiyar alleged that Karnataka remained an outlier owed to the State government’s approach.
The State authorities had failed to merchandise its stock of funds for the drip irrigation strategy which would payment the farmers. Similarly, efforts were being made for worth summation to cultivation produce, but the State authorities had remained indifferent and farmers were sufffering, Mr. Wadiyar alleged.
He said the government’s handling of summation successful human-wildlife struggle was an illustration of however the farmers were being fto down. Though much than 85,000 cases of conflicts were reported till 2025, alleviation and compensation was yet to beryllium paid successful much than 35,000 cases, helium said.
The MP criticised the suspension of the Vidya Nidhi strategy launched by the erstwhile BJP authorities successful the State and said that children of farmers were receiving ₹4,000 arsenic assistance nether the scheme, but the Congress scrapped it.
He claimed that portion the Centre was designing pro-farmer programmes, the State authorities was “sinking owed to governmental antagonism.” The BJP, helium said, would proceed to combat for the farmers.
BJP metropolis portion president L. Nagendra said the enactment would motorboat a State-wide agitation connected November 27 and 28 condemning the ‘’anti-farmers policies’’ of the State government. MLA T.S. Srivatsa and others were present.
