“Is this just a statistic? No. These are 767 shattered homes. 767 families that will never recover,” Gandhi wrote in a post on X in Hindi.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked the Modi government over farmer suicides in Maharashtra saying that the ‘government is silent and watching them with indifference’ despite ‘767 farmers in Maharashtra taking their own lives in just 3 months.’
“Is this just a statistic? No. These are 767 shattered homes. 767 families that will never recover,” he wrote in a post on X in Hindi.
The leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha slammed the Modi government’s policies on the issues and said that farmers are sinking deeper into debt everyday but there’s no guarantee of minimum support price (MSP).
He accused the government of not paying attention to farmers’ demand for loan waivers.
“Farmers are sinking deeper into debt every day — seeds are expensive, fertilizers are expensive, diesel is expensive… but there’s no guarantee of MSP. When they demand loan waivers, they are ignored,” he wrote.
On Wednesday, opposition members walked out of the Maharashtra Assembly twice over issues of farmer suicides and non-payment of dues to soybean cultivators in the state.
Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar claimed in the assembly that 767 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra between January and March this year. While 200 cases were declared ineligible for aid, inquiries are pending in 194 cases, he said.
Gandhi also shared a screenshot of a news report which put the number of farmer suicides in Maharashtra in the first three months at 767.
“But (what about) those who have crores? The Modi government easily waives their loans. Just look at today’s news — Anil Ambani’s Rs 48,000 crore SBI ‘fraud’,” he said.
“Modi ji had said that he would double the income of farmers. Today the situation is such that the life of the farmer is being halved.
“This system is killing farmers — silently, but continuously and Modi ji is watching the spectacle of his own PR,” Gandhi said.
BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya hit back, sharing a chart on X which claimed that 55,928 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra during the 15-year tenure of the NCP-Congress government.
“The politics of counting the dead is disgusting, but it is necessary to show the mirror to people like Rahul Gandhi,” Malviya said.
Before opening his mouth, Rahul Gandhi should recall the sins committed by the NCP-Congress government during its tenure in Maharashtra, the BJP leader said.
“First tell why 55,928 farmers committed suicide in 15 years of Congress-NCP (Sharad Pawar) government in Maharashtra,” he said.
