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Debt-hit farmers of Maharashtra's Vidarbha region have accused the BJP of treating the issue of minimum support prices (MSP) and waiver of farm loans as a 'jumla' (empty election promise) and demanded that the government seek a fresh mandate, an NGO said here on Tuesday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
NAGPUR: Reports collated by farm activist Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti claimed that four more farmers had committed suicide in last two days in the region. While there was no independent official conformation of these case, Tiwari said that there was a jump in agrarian distress as relief...

Activists blame corruption, lax officials

Families of nearly half of the farmers in Maharashtra who have committed suicide over the last four years are not eligible to get even the paltry Rs 1 lakh compensation thanks to government rules. Maharashtra, along with Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, AP, Chhattisgarh and MP, registers a high number of...