New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Sunday put the blame on the Centre for the plight of the drought-hit farmers of the Bundelkhand region, who have been fighting a bitter survival battle in the face of a severe drought that has left many of the families in a debt-trap.
A long and persisting drought has denied these farmers a good harvest and most Bundelkhand families today have barely enough to eat.
"We are not responsible for these sums that you are talking about,” Amar Singh said in reaction to an exclusive CNN-IBN report, highlighting the plight of the desperate and drought-hit farmers of Uttar Pradesh.
The families of these farmers have been handed over paltry cheques worth Rs 3 and 10 by the state government in the name of drought relief.
Amar Singh says the state government is not to be blamed for this as it is the Centre which is responsible for this paltry aid.
“We're only a distributing agency and we've been given the paltry sums by the Central government,” the SP leader said.
He said the SP Government knows that the people of Uttar Pradesh will teach it a lesson if it fails to deliver. “If we don't want to be taught a lesson, we will have to perform. There is no other alternative,” he said.
Abject poverty is a minimum common factor among most farming families in Bundelkhand region. Many have been even driven to suicide by poverty. And those who survive are praying for an end to their misery.
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