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India Opposition stages walkout over farmers' suicide
Expressing disastisfaction over the reply of Agriculture Minister Damodar Rout on the farmers' suicide in Orissa, the members of the Opposition Congress and the BJP today walked out of the House. Dr Rout, replying to the admissibility of an adjournment motion on the suicide of farmers in Orissa due to crop failure, said the allegation of the Opposition on the suicide of farmers was not based on fact. The Opposition, he said, were trying to take political mileage out of the death of the farmers in the state. He said the suicide of farmers as reported in Mayurbhanja, Gajapati, Nimapara, Balasore and Dhenkanal were not true. The Minister said in some cases the family members of the deceased farmers were forced to say the farmers had committed suicide following crop failure. The Minister dismissed the Opposition allegation that the government was not taking any steps to prevent the suicide and become a silent spectator to the tragic incidents. Dr Rout, however, said crop failure was not the only reason behind the farmers' suicide. Soil erosion, declining ground water level, productivity and the collapse of the joint family systems were also attributing to the causes leading to suicide of farmers. The Minister said whatever might be reason, suicide of farmers was a matter of grave concern ''for all of us''and appealed to all members of the house to rise above their political ideology and cooperate with the state government to improve the the condition of the farmers. The Minister said as per the Crime Branch report as many as 260 people had committed suicide last year, but not a single case was reported in the newpaper. He said the government had given top priority to agriculture and had taken a number of steps for the development of agriculture and farmers. -- (UNI) -- 21CA54.xml
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