Farmer Suicide in UP and Callous Mayawati Govt CPI(ML) Teams Visit Gonda and Ambedkar Nagar
A 30 year young man Ved Prakash Pandey burnt himself to death at the Gonda District Magistrate’s residence on 27 March. The CPI(ML) team that visited the village found that the youth’s father who’s a farmer had been arrested for failure to repay a loan of Rs. 2.5 lakh. The loan was taken to buy a tractor. Disturbed at the arrest of his father and insensitiveness of District Officials the youth had been knocking on every Govt. officials’ door including the SDM, requesting them to release his father. He had also arranged one installment of the loan and even assured those officials that he would arrange the remaining amount in due course. Perceiving the insensitive and unhelpful nature of those officials he even warned them that he would take his own life if his father was not released. Expressing grief at the death, CPI(ML)’s Uttar Pradesh State Secretary Com. Sudhakar Yadav issuing a statement in Lucknow said that the Mayawati Govt. which is so engrossed in recovery of the loans is not caring for the lives of innocent farmers and their families. If the Dist. Administration had shown even a slight flexibility, Ved Prakash could have been alive. But the Govt’s insensitiveness has reached such a level that it is not bothered about the lives and suicides by farmers and peasants. He said that Mayawati Govt.’s anti-farmer and anti-peasant policies are squarely responsible for this arrest of a farmer and death of his young son. Gonda’s incident points to an emerging reality that this Govt. can give all sorts of support to scamsters, corrupt officials and ministers and mafias, but not to debt-trapped farmers. The month of February and March has been specially harsh on such farmers. The administration released the father in panic hearing the death of the son. CPI(ML) State Secretary has demanded fixing of responsibility for this death and strict action against those found culprits, adequate compensation to the family members of the deceased and general amnesty for all small and medium scale farmers trapped in debt. Gonda’s Party unit too has written to Divisional Commissioner and demanded justice. Another team of CPI(ML) toured Ambedkar Nagar’s Tilaktanda village in Jahangirganj PS led by Comrade Rambharos, Party’s Dist. Incharge. Here, a 15 year girl student Pratigya who was studying in class 9th was kidnapped on 21st March, sexually assaulted for three days and burnt to death by the rapists. Members of the team met the father and mother of the deceased girl and found that when the parents found their burnt daughter on 24 March from a pond in the village she was still alive and by the time they rushed with her to a nearby hospital she had become severely critical and lost her life shortly after. She narrated the ghastly crime to her mother before she died. She named the villagers involved in assaulting and burning her. Same night the father of the victim reported this in the Police Station but the police did not write an FIR. Only when much pressure was put by people that the police registered a complaint. CPI(ML) said that there has been steep rise in such incidents of crime against women and young girls that goes to show how safe and secure women and girls are in Mayawati’s rule. The rapists have shed all fear as the police can be bought to their side. In Badayun, one BSP MLA, declared wanted by the Court for assaulting another girl student, is absconding in police record even when he is addressing public meetings. Party has demanded immediate arresting of the criminals and urgent action against all the accused. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
