The self immolation bid by a farmer, in a Mulayam Singh, show of support rally, in the drought prone areas of Bundelkhand, brings the focus on the UP State government and its attempts at thwarting agrarian related suicides in Uttar Pradesh and presenting Uttar Pradesh as an agricultural paradise for Indian farmers, as opposed to the Congress ruled states like Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
While the bureaucrats in Congress ruled states are being pressed in to fire fighting tasks in various media appearances, as analysts who advise farmers on economics and structural issues like high cost cultivation practices in non irrigated areas of India, it is now the turn of bureaucrats in Mulayam Singh ruled state of Uttar Pradesh to deny agrarian distress and suicides.
At an electoral rally in Mahoba, to save his own beleagured future in Lucknow, Shri Mulayam Singh has declared, "Not a single farmer has committed suicide in UP during my regime and those making such claims, are opposition-sponsored agents trying to tarnish the government image."
Consequently the District Magistrate of Mahoba, Sameer Verma, has been persuaded to don the role of a mental health expert, and dole out "insanity certificates" to suicidal farmers.
Calling the farmer a "sirfira", and his immolation bid by fire, in the presence of Mulayam Singh as totally unwarranted and unjustified, he promptly issued an unfit mental health certificate to the farmer Maniram.
It really is amazing, what impossible tasks and roles Indian bureaucrats, are being forced to undertake, as they attempt to do media firefighting, in the face of the Farm Exit policy unleashed by the Congress government in Delhi and Mumbai.
One Dr Sudhir Goyal is doling out prescriptions, on why high cost cotton cultivation is unsuitable in Vidarbha, another Sameer Verma is issuing mental insanity certificates in Mahoba, Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh, and extolling the virtues of a farmer friendly regime in Uttar Pradesh, and the efforts of district administrations in preventing farmers from debt recovery operations and land seizures.
All this, while the Sensex Minister and the Cricket Minister, are busy watching the bears and bulls, and the return to form of Saurav Ganguly in Indian cricket team, and doling out vacated farm land tracts for Special Export Zones, under various Farmlands Grab Acts (FGA's).
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