Distracted by own horse-trading agendas, BJP neglected to serve Maharashtra people: Congress
Congress on Wednesday alleged that the BJP has neglected the people of Maharashtra as it was distracted by its own «horse-trading and deal-making» agendas, and asked how much donation did it take to engineer the collapse of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh attacked the BJP ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Maharashtra's Ramtek and posed questions on key issues affecting the state.
«Today, the PM heads to Ramtek in Maharashtra, a state that was rocked by hundreds of farmer suicides last year, and where corruption charges continue to pile up. Distracted by its own horse-trading and deal-making agendas, the BJP has neglected to serve the people,» Ramesh said in a post on X.
Posing questions to the prime minister, the Congress leader said that on an average day in Maharashtra, seven farmers take their own lives, and this heartbreaking statistic comes from the state's Minister for Relief and Rehabilitation, who reported that 2,366 farmers died by suicide between January and October last year.
«He was quick to remind us that 'The state government gives 1 lakh rupees to the kin of farmers who die by suicide'. What the Minister did not reveal is the callousness from the government that compels farmers to take such drastic steps in the first place,» he said.
Ramesh claimed that 60 per cent of districts faced drought conditions last year but no help arrived from the government.
«When crops were damaged by unseasonal rains in more than half of the state, farmers
