C'garh Cong demands jobs for kin of farmers who killed self

Stepping up its attack on the ruling BJP over farmers suicide, Chhattisgarh Congress today demanded compensation and jobs for the kin of peasants, who ended their lives allegedly due tocrop failure and debt burden in the state.
The main opposition party said the state government should stopputting blame onfamily disputes and alcoholism for the suicides.
"There are reports of suicides by around 19 farmers following the Kharif crops failure this year in different parts of the state but the ruling BJP is still unconcerned toward this," state Congress spokesperson Shailesh Nitin Trivedi claimed.
Trivedi demanded a compensation of Rs 20 lakh for the relatives of each farmers, who committed suicide, and government job to theirkin.

The farmers were already bearing brunt of drought due to shortfall in rains and the state government further added woes to their worries by not providing them seeds and fertilisers within time, which thereby affected the paddy production compelling the farmers to commit suicide, he claimed.
The Raman Singh government has neither fulfilled its poll promise to procure paddy from farmers at minimum support price of Rs 2,100 per quintal nor given bonus of Rs 300 to them which also reflects its "anti-farmers" approach, Trivedi said.
The government should not escape from its responsibility by holding family disputes and alcoholism as reasons for suicides, the spokesperson added.

The state government had said that family disputes and alcoholism led to the suicides by a farmer each in Dhamtari and Rajnandgaon districts recently.