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Congress,Criticizing BJP’s One Year Rule,Raises Farmers Issues In The State

Nov. 01 Economy, Unrest Strikes Comments

[Mumbai,Maharashtra]Congress,Criticizing BJP’s One Year Rule,Raises Farmers Issues In The State
In supoort of its alegations Congress has given following Datas
[1]The rate of growth of the State GDP has fallen from 7.3% under the Congress, to 5.7% under the BJP, and
[2]Growth in manufacture from 2.5% to 0.5%.
[3]The agriculture, which grew at 8%, is currently showing a negative growth rate of 12%.
[4]Food grains production has fallen from 146 lakh tonnes to 100 lakh tonnes and
[5] production of pulses has almost halved to 18 lakh tonnes from 32 lakh tonnes.
[6]Apart From the Above there have been as many as 1296 farmer suicides this year, and the government has done very little about it.
[7]They have cut the labour budget to Rs.564 crore from Rs 950 crore.
Congress has Demanded that
[1]It is time for the Fadnavis government to take seriously the mandate given to him by the people of Maharashtra. While they and their ally, the Shiv Sena, are busy banning foods, blackening the face of RTI activists, and curtailing freedoms, farmers are taking their lives because the government has failed them.

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