On Tuesday former Union Minister and BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar blasted Rahul Gandhi and the Siddaramaiah government for the deaths of nearly 1200 farmers in Karnataka.
Chandrasekhar said this happened due to Congress and Gandhi’s economic mismanagement in the southern state. He further added, ‘Meanwhile people in Karnataka die due to Rahuls Congress Economic mismanagement and Loot’.
The Congress returned to power in Karnataka in May 2023. According to the media reports, as many as 1,182 farmers died by suicide over the span of the last 15 months in Karnataka.
The state’s revenue department shared the data. The prime causes cited by the revenue department for these suicides included severe drought, crop loss, and debt.
Most of the farmer suicides in Karnataka came in three districts of Belagavi, Haveri, and Dharwad, which reported 122, 120, and 101 such cases respectively.
Chikkamagalur reported 89 farmer suicides, Kalaburgi reported 69 and Yadagiri saw 68 such instances during the same period. Of the 27 districts where farmers took the extreme step, only six reported farmer suicide cases in single digits. The remaining 21 districts witnessed 30 farmer suicide cases or more.
Last September, Karnataka minister Shivanand Patil created a controversy by saying that the number of farmer suicides in the state had increased after the government raised the compensation to Rs 5 lakh that was provided to the families of the deceased.
He backed his statement by saying that this compensation was claimed by families of farmers who died by suicide due to financial distress resulting from crop losses and inability to repay loans.
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