Bhattal slams Union minister for remark on farmer suicides
Sunday, 26/07/2015
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CHANDIGARH: Former Punjab chief minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal has slammed union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh for attributing farmers’ suicides to love affairs, impotency and dowry disputes.
“It is ridiculous,” Bhattal said in a statement here, describing the union minister’s reply to a question as “highly insensitive”.
She said farmers across the country were under heavy debt and that loss of crops and diminishing returns in the agriculture sector were among the reasons behind the suicides.
“The farmers fear that the NDA government at the Centre is bent upon acquiring land from them by hook or by crook. This causes concern and anxiety in their already-stressed lives,” she added.
