Admittedly, there are a myriad other factors at play. Still, is the current plight of farmers, especially in suicide-stricken states like Maharashtra, because the Humble Indian Farmer, all things considered, is also lazy? And wily?
# ”There are power cuts in both Gujarat and Maharashtra. The farmers in Gujarat, just like the farmers here, chew tobacco. But after (having finished) chewing tobacco, the farmers in Gujarat go to work whereas the farmers here sit idly,” Union Textile Minister Shankersinh Vaghela, said during a visit to Akola.
# “The farmers experiment a lot. They add excess water and small stones to bulk up the weight of their produce,” chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has said.
True? False? Not the right to say even if true? Insult upon injury? Insensitive? Rubbing salt into the suicides?
Mary Antoinette-esque? “Let them work hard if they do not want to end their lives”?
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Maharashtra’s politicians have, as usual, been quick off the blocks.
# “The government has done nothing for farmers. It should not at least poke fun at farmers,” former chief minister Manohar Joshi of the Shiv Sena has said.
# “No matter whether the farmer is from Vidarbha or anywhere else, he works hard for his living,” Congress leader Vilas Baburao Muttemwar has said.
Really? Wrong to remind farmers that they should work hard instead of waiting for packages? And are all farmers saints, who all work hard everywhere?
Farmers are farmers and they have to toil in the field whether this Govt., is there are not. By and large the cultivators are good , they mind their own business, they also know the nature very well. But , it is the political leaders and sometimes the so-called farmerleaders mislead them and give false assurances and hopes. There may be stray cases of farmers taking loans for personal reasons andthen fallinginto traps, and wometimes pressures may lead to suicides. Proper guidance, timely help from all corners , psychological support are the need of the hour. It is realluy disgusting to see that political parties makes these suicides their pawns.Let us not forget Jai Jawan Jai Kisan.
There are lazy and hard working fellows in all the working communities. Say like in a Government office, there are majority kamchors and a few sincere ones.
Of course I agree to the fact that all farmers are not saints. They all are not systematic workers. Down in Karnataka, there are few agriculturists where men miss work and it’s women who are the bread winners.
I have personally seen farmers of such kind. People who while away their time or spend money drinking.
Ofcourse, you can’t brand the entire mass. Good and bad people exist in all professions. And the plight of farmers needs some careful addressing because no matter what, we need food.
The truth is always bitter. Today mornign was watching CNN IBN story of Kerala farmers doing well off by farming in Gundulpet . The toil hard (which they dont back home), the boss works along with the workforce and they enjoy the fruits (and flowers). Suicide rate still continues to be high in Wayanad.
The truth is bitter:
Indeed. What about the truth that over 500 farmers have committed suicide in Mr. Vaghela’s own state? This is as per a report a few weeks back. Hence, just how hard-working are Mr. Vaghela’s farmers? Or the hard-working state of Punjab where the farming is entirely dependent on migrant labourers and to boot, over 2,000 farmers have committed suicide? Hence, how lazy are they?
Dear All,
The suicides only show that most poor farmers are honorable men! I would like to see a few, make it many, MLAs and MPs doing the same honorable thing now! If they do, India will be the World’s most heroic nation!