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CPI to hold State-wide protests on farm loans
CPI State secretary K Ramakrishna, while briefing the media on the resolutions passed at the three-day State council meeting held in Tirupati, regretted that the government had not taken any initiative to help the farming sector.
Vijayawada: The CPI State committee on Friday demanded the State government to issue fresh loans to farmers for the current kharif season.
CPI State secretary K Ramakrishna, while briefing the media on the resolutions passed at the three-day State council meeting held in Tirupati, regretted that the government had not taken any initiative to help the farming sector.
Though the kharif season had already started with the early monsoon, the banks were not lending to the farmers, he said and blamed the government for its failure to clear the outstanding loans of the farmers.
He said that the farmers have become defaulters with the banks as they did not repay the loans due to the loan waiver promise by the Chief Minister during the elections.
The CPI leader said that the government had fixed 43.88 lakh hectares as target for the kharif season. However, the same government had recommended Rs 38,000 crore loans from the banks against the requirement of Rs 70,000 crore. The farmers would be forced to approach the money lenders and end up in the debt trap, he feared.
He also pointed out that the government had sanctioned loan eligibility cards to five lakh tenant farmers against the total number of 16 lakh tenant farmers.
He said that the CPI would hold protests at the district collectorates and the local Thasildar offices to mount pressure on the government to provide loans to the farmers. He appealed to the farmers, tenant farmers and the agriculture labourers to join the protest across the State.
The State council also extended support to the general strike to be held on September 2 across the country. The State council asked the government to withdraw the Janma Bhoomi committees and strengthen the village panchayats.
The CPI wanted the government to implement the Janma Bhoomi programmes through the local bodies and scrap the Janma Bhoomi committees.
