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| Mid-term polls a certainty: Advani |
| Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L.K. Advani, BJP president Rajnath Singh and other leaders at a farmers’ rally, organised by the BJP
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| INDIA
, 21-August-2007
2:28:56 AM |
| Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L.K. Advani on Monday asserted that the crisis over the nuclear deal with the United States had cast serious doubts over the future of the United Progressive Alliance Government, and added that mid-term elections were now a certainty.
“It will be difficult to predict how long the present crisis will drag on but the Government will not survive its full term. The crisis is of its own making and others cannot be blamed for it,” he said at a “kisan rally” at the Ramlila Grounds here against the “anti-farmer policies” of the Congress-led Government.
Mr. Advani said: “It is for the first time that farmers have been compelled to commit group suicides under the present Congress-led regime. The agrarian crisis has swept across the country and farmers in prosperous States like Punjab too were ending their lives.”
Huge disparities
The Government had flawed economic policies. The talk of high growth becomes meaningless in the face of huge disparities, he said.
Alleging that farmers were discriminated against, Mr. Advani stressed the need to direct investment towards rural economy to put villages on the path to progress.
BJP president Rajnath Singh said the nation’s prosperity was linked to the prosperity of farmers.
“Petrol and diesel prices had increased six times in the past two years but the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops has failed to keep pace. The average production of food grains a family has reduced from 260 kg to 186 kg over the years. The Government’s failure to convert the population into workforce has impeded the pace of development,” he said.
Demanding a joint parliamentary committee probe into alleged wheat import scam, he said only 9 per cent of wheat was bought from farmers in 2005-06 and a huge quantity was imported to benefit black marketers and businessmen.
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