Farmers in pain as India remains indifferent towards food growers

The on-going farmers' protest could have been avoided just by giving the protesters a written assurance that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) system will not be abolished. But the government is clearly indulging in unnecessary politics over the issue.

Patna: It seems like the pain is unending for the farmers of the country. First, they have to work hard in difficult conditions and then the are policy-makers, who generally would make laws concerning agriculture without consulting farmers or thinking about their possible repercussions.

The farmers have suffered for a long time now. Their pain has no limits. Everything has changed in the past decades but the condition of the farmers. They suffered during the Britsh rule and they continue to suffer even several decades after independence, simply because the successive governments have been indifferent towards them.

The farmers are demanding something, but the indifferent government, who over a period of time have started presenting themselves as masters of the country, as it refuses to budge.

The farmers' movement, which started from Champaran of Bihar on April 10, 1917, under the leadership of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi gave a direction to the country's struggle of independence.

But even after attaining freedom from the British, the farmers continued to exist as slaves of their own soil as they have been working really hard to keep their lives going.

In 2013, Narendra Modi-led BJP kept on accusing the UPA II government of being indifferent towards the farmers. It also promised to double farmers' income. To grab power, the saffron party, in fact, remembered Gandhi, Ram Manohar Lohiya and Jyaprakash Narayan.

The question arises why the government is not doing what is being demanded.

The on-going farmers' protest could have been avoided just by giving the protesters a written assurance that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) system will not be abolished. But the government is clearly indulging in unnecessary politics over the issue.