BRS govt failed to stop suicides of farmers charges BJP’s Gudur 

Hyderabad. (RNI) Bharatiya Janata Party state executive committee member Gudur Narayana Reddy on Sunday expressed deep anguish over the serial suicides of farmers of Telangana and criticized that the BRS government has miserably failed in preventing them.
In a media statement, he said that the latest suicides of three formers from Medak and Nirmal districts on September 2 bear testimony to the state government’s failure in putting a stop to them. 
He said that while Chief Minister and supremo of Bharat Rashtra Samithi K Chandrasekhara Rao call for “Ab ki bar kisan sarkar” ( this time farmer's govt)
at the Centre, he has forgotten the farmers’ plights in his own backyard. 

He said, that a day did not pass in the state in past 10 years without the news of suicides of farmers in the state in the media, reflects the sorry state of affairs prevailing in the farm sector of the state. 
The BJP leader said that nearly 7,000 farmers have taken their lives in the past ten years in the state due to financial problems. In this year alone nearly 100 farmers have committed suicides in the state. 
He said that the farmers were committing suicides as there was no protection to them when crops fail. He said that there was no enough insurance coverage to them to get compensation to face crop failures. 
Narayana Reddy said that most of the farmers did not have institutional financing and were forced to depend on the usurers for capital for raising the crops. High interest rates have been claiming the lives of the farmers, he pointed out. 

“The state government did not implement the Fasal Bhima Yojana of the Centre which insulates the farmers from crop failures. Along with this scheme, several other schemes being launched by the Centre for the benefit of the farmers were not implemented in the state,” he charged. 

He said that Rythu Bandhu scheme was not a panacea, as claimed by the state government, to address the distress in the farm sector. He said the farmers need several other incentives, subsidies, coverage and compensations to face the adversities. 

He said that ironically the state did not have Agriculture Policy which would address the issues of the farmers comprehensively. The Chief Minister who claims to be the champion of farmers did not bother to give a thought to the problems being faced by the farmers of the state in the past ten years. 

Narayana Reddy has pointed out that the government did not give any compensation to the kin of the farmers who committed suicide as it refuses to acknowledge such deaths. 

He said that the rules being implemented by the state government to recognize the suicides of the farmers due to farm related distress are coming in the way of granting compensation to the farmers. Due to the lapses in the rules the suicides were not recorded as farm distress related ones and the kin of the dead farmers were denied the compensation.

He demanded the state government to immediately come out with comprehensive Agriculture Policy, to give compensation to the kin of the farmers who committed suicides and to implement the Central schemes in the state to protect the farming community of the state.