BJP is the “biggest enemy” of Maharashtra farmers: Mallikarjun Kharge

Mallikarjun Kharge. File | Photo Credit: PTi

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday (October 21, 2024) said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the “big enemy” of farmers in Maharashtra and asserted that the State has decided that farmers will only benefit by removing the two-engine government from power. .

In a Hindi book on X, Mr. Kharge criticized the BJP for farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra and said that the promise to make the State drought-free “total“(rhetoric).

“BJP is the biggest enemy of farmers in Maharashtra; 20,000 farmers have killed themselves. Massive cuts in agriculture funds. Promise of Rs 20,000 crore water grid turned out to be false. Promise to make Maharashtra drought-free”Total‘,” he said. Mr. Kharge also attacked the BJP for its “refusal to give compensation to farmers” while the insurance companies got Rs8,000 crore.

He criticized the BJP for the ban on exports and the heavy burden of export duty on onion and soybean farmers and the sharp decline in cotton and sugarcane production, which has put farmers in dire straits. Mr. Kharge said that the State milk organizations are in trouble and the Government itself has admitted that.

“Maharashtra has decided that farmers will only benefit by removing the two-engine BJP government from power!” Maharashtra wants The MahaParivartan!” said the Congress president.