Click to play videoSonbhadra (Uttar Pradesh): A Rs 3 cheque to a farmer in distress - that's just one of the examples of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh government's generosity in the state.
The state government issued this measly amount to a farmer in the Sonbhadra district and it seems Rs 3 is all it takes to feed a starving man and make him happy.
“We are four brothers and each of us got a cheque of Rs 3,” a farmer, Kewal said.
This cheque not only ridicules the plight of the farmers, it also showcases the hypocrisy of the Samajwadi Party government, which claims to be their sympathisers.
“Till now not a single farmer has died of starvation in UP,” Mulayam Singh claimed.
And if that was not enough, another poverty-stricken farmer received a cheque of Rs 10, proving yet again Mulayam Singh's generosity.
Such incidents put a question mark on the kind of state that Mulayam Singh is trying to build for the people.
“What is the point of encashing a cheque of Rs 10? asked Bheetan, another distressed farmer.
The farmers association is also miffed at the Samajwadi Party government's stepmotherly treatment towards its own farmers.
“Mulayam’s government has made a joke out of the state of these poverty-striken farmers. The government has not been able to help the farmers,” General Secretary, Akhil Bhartiya Mazdoor Union, Dinkar Kapoor said.
CNN-IBN had earlier shown the UP government handing over cheques worth Rs 10 to Bundelkhand farmers as drought relief money and now the farmers of Sonbhadra are reeling in poverty.
It seems Mulayam Singh is making his magnanimity very evident. However, once again, it’s the hunger stricken farmers who are caught in the politics of the state.
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