The Lok Satta Party has called upon farmers to get ready for a serious fight against the State and Central Governments which have been depriving them of remunerative prices for agricultural produce.
The party’s State Working Committee, which met here yesterday, said in a resolution that 40 party teams would launch a publicity campaign in 150 mandals as part of its mission to unite farmers, supplementing party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan’s visits to districts. It suggested formation of farmers’ forums at the village level to keep the movement apolitical.
Addressing the media, party Working President D. V. V. S. Varma, General Secretary Katari Srinivasa Rao and Secretary P. Bhaskara Rao pointed out that the neighboring Karnataka Government collected a mere 1.5 percent market cess on paddy, allowed free movement of rice outside the State and announced a bonus of Rs.100 per quintal. In contrast, the Andhra Pradesh Government which earned Rs.1500 crore by way of tax and cess (totaling 10 percent), would not announce a bonus of Rs.200 a quintal of paddy.
By preventing free movement of rice outside the State and banning exports outside the country, the State and Central Governments are doing grave injustice to farmers. With a bumper crop round the corner and Government and private warehouses brimming with stocks, paddy prices are ruling below the minimum support prices, the party leaders said.
The leaders demanded that the State Government announce a bonus of Rs.200 a quintal above the minimum support price, facilitate pledge loans against paddy stocks in farmers’ homes, purchase discolored paddy and permit movement of rice outside the State. They wanted the Government of India to permit rice exports. The Karnataka Chief Minister would be leading an all-party delegation to Delhi to convince the Government of India on the imperative of exports in the present situation, the party leaders said.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Great Work by LSP
LOK SATTA PARTY achieved another success in drawing Karnataka Goverment's
attention by organising a gathering and rally of farmers at sindhanoor
in Karnataka on Wednesday November 3, 2010.
Its a huge crowd..look at the pictures and news on below link.
http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/04/stories/2010110454800300.htm
Result
: With in 24 hours of the meeting, Karnataka Govt offered a bonus of
Rs.100 a Quintal to the farmers over minimum support price.
Kudos to everyone who involved in these meetings
Centre urged to revoke ban on export of rice to help farmers
Correspondent
‘Farmers are in distress as it has killed demand in the market'
Government asked to enhance storage
capacity in godowns
‘There is a dead stock of over 100 million
tonnes of rice in the country'
Voice of dissent:A gathering of famers at the rally in Sindhanur on Wednesday
Sindhanur (Raichur district): Jayaprakash Narayan, MLA from Andhra Pradesh and president of the Lok Satta party, has said that the Union Government should enhance storage capacity in available godowns and ask the State Trading Corporation of India (STC) to export rice to safeguard interests of farmers.
Speaking after inaugurating a rally of farmers, jointly organised by the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and the Hasiru Sene here on Wednesday, he said that wrong policies adopted by the Union Government had hit farmers. All farmers, especially paddy growers, were in distress owing to the ban imposed on the export of rice.
He said that the Centre had banned export of all varieties of rice, except Basmati. This decision had put a stop to the marketing of rice. Godowns were full with a huge stock of paddy and rice and farmers could not sell paddy due to lack of demand. Both traders and farmers had suffered heavy losses. Mr. Narayana explained that with a huge dead stock of over 100 million tonnes of rice in the country, the price of the commodity had fallen drastically. “There are no takers in the market even though farmers are ready to sell paddy at Rs. 1,000 per quintal. At this rate, the farmers will not be able to recover the cost of cultivation. The number of suicide cases among farmers could increase if the situation continues,” he said.
Urging the Centre to find alternative solutions to liquidate the huge stock of rice, he suggested exporting the surplus stock through the STC.
Chamarasa Malipatil, vice-president of the State unit of the KRRS, and a group of progressive farmers spoke.
attention by organising a gathering and rally of farmers at sindhanoor
in Karnataka on Wednesday November 3, 2010.
Its a huge crowd..look at the pictures and news on below link.
http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/04/stories/2010110454800300.htm
Result
: With in 24 hours of the meeting, Karnataka Govt offered a bonus of
Rs.100 a Quintal to the farmers over minimum support price.
Kudos to everyone who involved in these meetings
Centre urged to revoke ban on export of rice to help farmers
Correspondent
‘Farmers are in distress as it has killed demand in the market'
Government asked to enhance storage
capacity in godowns
‘There is a dead stock of over 100 million
tonnes of rice in the country'
Voice of dissent:A gathering of famers at the rally in Sindhanur on Wednesday
Sindhanur (Raichur district): Jayaprakash Narayan, MLA from Andhra Pradesh and president of the Lok Satta party, has said that the Union Government should enhance storage capacity in available godowns and ask the State Trading Corporation of India (STC) to export rice to safeguard interests of farmers.
Speaking after inaugurating a rally of farmers, jointly organised by the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and the Hasiru Sene here on Wednesday, he said that wrong policies adopted by the Union Government had hit farmers. All farmers, especially paddy growers, were in distress owing to the ban imposed on the export of rice.
He said that the Centre had banned export of all varieties of rice, except Basmati. This decision had put a stop to the marketing of rice. Godowns were full with a huge stock of paddy and rice and farmers could not sell paddy due to lack of demand. Both traders and farmers had suffered heavy losses. Mr. Narayana explained that with a huge dead stock of over 100 million tonnes of rice in the country, the price of the commodity had fallen drastically. “There are no takers in the market even though farmers are ready to sell paddy at Rs. 1,000 per quintal. At this rate, the farmers will not be able to recover the cost of cultivation. The number of suicide cases among farmers could increase if the situation continues,” he said.
Urging the Centre to find alternative solutions to liquidate the huge stock of rice, he suggested exporting the surplus stock through the STC.
Chamarasa Malipatil, vice-president of the State unit of the KRRS, and a group of progressive farmers spoke.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Announce bonus for paddy, Dr. JP requests CM
Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan today urged Chief Minister K. Rosaiah to announce a bonus of Rs.200 a quintal for paddy over and above the minimum support price.
In a media statement, Dr. JP said that the Karnataka Government had offered a bonus of Rs.100 a quintal within 24 hours of Karnataka paddy growers drawing the Government’s attention to their plight by organizing a largely attended conference at Sindanur in Raichur district of Karnataka on November 3.
Dr. JP pointed out the Andhra Pradesh Government burdens farmers with a five percent rural development cess, four percent VAT (sales tax), and one percent market cess.
In contrast, the Karnataka Government collects a mere 1.5 percent as market cess, and does not collect either rural development cess or VAT. It does not restrict free movement of rice outside the State.
Dr. JP wanted the Andhra Pradesh Government to remove VAT and permit free movement of rice outside the State. It should persuade the Government of India to permit export of non-Basmati rice considering that the country is about to reap a bumper harvest even as Government and private warehouses are overflowing with food grains. Since rice prices in international markets are reigning high, exports will earn the country foreign exchange and facilitate payment of remunerative prices to paddy growers. He said that in areas where the paddy has just come into the market, the ruling prices are less than the minimum support price and added that further dithering on rice exports will depress prices further and harm producers.
For the last two weeks, Dr. JP has been on a mission to mobilize farmers on their demands. He has already visited some Coastal Andhra districts and Nalgonda in Telangana. Beginning today with Khammam, he will be visiting Medak, Nizamabad, Kurnool, Kadapa and Nellore districts to interact with farmers in the next few days.
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
Bride burning deserves death penalty: SC
Accusing the "sick" Indian society for deaths of young women at the hands of their husbands and in-laws in the name of dowry, the Supreme Court has held that bride burning belongs to the "rarest of rare" category and deserves the death penalty.
Bride burning is a crime which deserves the death sentence because of the extreme depravity of mind involved in killing a young woman for the "lust of money", a Bench of Justices Markandeya Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra said in their judgment.
"The hallmark of a healthy society is the respect it shows to its women. Indian society has become a sick society," the court observed, adding that the evidence of this fact lay in the large number of cases coming up in the Supreme Court (and also in almost all courts in the country) in which young women are being killed by their husbands or by their in-laws by pouring kerosene on them and setting them on fire or by hanging/strangulating them.
Bride burning, the court said, is nothing short of murder. It explains that the term "rarest of rare" does not just mean that the act is uncommon, "it means that the act is brutal and barbaric". "And bride killing is certainly barbaric," Justice Katju said in its October 28 judgment.
The court was hearing an appeal filed by Satya Narayan Tiwari, who with his mother, killed his wife of three years in 2000 because her father could not afford to gift him a Maruti car. Forensic report showed that she was hung to death and then her body was burnt in an effort to deceive the police that she had committed suicide in their house.
The trial court acquitted the duo for lack of evidence, but the high court sentenced them to life under Section 304B (dowry death) of the IPC and six months under the Dowry Prohibition Act.
The jail term was to run concurrently.
But for the Supreme Court, the prosecution had not done enough by booking the mother-son duo for dowry death alone. Justice Katju said the state should have charged them with murder and fought for death penalty.
"In fact, it was really a case under Section 302 (murder) IPC and death sentence should have been imposed in such a case, but since no charge under Section 302 IPC was levelled, we cannot do so," he wrote.
Bride burning is a crime which deserves the death sentence because of the extreme depravity of mind involved in killing a young woman for the "lust of money", a Bench of Justices Markandeya Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra said in their judgment.
"The hallmark of a healthy society is the respect it shows to its women. Indian society has become a sick society," the court observed, adding that the evidence of this fact lay in the large number of cases coming up in the Supreme Court (and also in almost all courts in the country) in which young women are being killed by their husbands or by their in-laws by pouring kerosene on them and setting them on fire or by hanging/strangulating them.
Bride burning, the court said, is nothing short of murder. It explains that the term "rarest of rare" does not just mean that the act is uncommon, "it means that the act is brutal and barbaric". "And bride killing is certainly barbaric," Justice Katju said in its October 28 judgment.
The court was hearing an appeal filed by Satya Narayan Tiwari, who with his mother, killed his wife of three years in 2000 because her father could not afford to gift him a Maruti car. Forensic report showed that she was hung to death and then her body was burnt in an effort to deceive the police that she had committed suicide in their house.
The trial court acquitted the duo for lack of evidence, but the high court sentenced them to life under Section 304B (dowry death) of the IPC and six months under the Dowry Prohibition Act.
The jail term was to run concurrently.
But for the Supreme Court, the prosecution had not done enough by booking the mother-son duo for dowry death alone. Justice Katju said the state should have charged them with murder and fought for death penalty.
"In fact, it was really a case under Section 302 (murder) IPC and death sentence should have been imposed in such a case, but since no charge under Section 302 IPC was levelled, we cannot do so," he wrote.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Let us ensure triumph of good over evil, appeals Dr. JP
Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan today conveyed his greetings and good wishes to people on the eve of Deepavali.
Pointing out that Deepavali symbolizes the triumph of good over evil as per mythology and tradition, Dr. JP regretted that the contrary has become true in contemporary India. Millions of people continue to be mired in poverty and drudgery, although we have the resources and technologies to wipe every tear from every eye. Not a day passes without skeletons of corruption tumbling out of the cupboard from all over the country in most spheres of life including the highest judiciary. The chasm between rural and urban India, agriculture and industry, the poor and the rich has been ever widening.
Dr. JP said, “Let us resolve on the occasion of Deepavali to address some of these burning issues if we want to ensure that the festival of lights will in future at least mark the triumph of good over evil.”
Pointing out that Deepavali symbolizes the triumph of good over evil as per mythology and tradition, Dr. JP regretted that the contrary has become true in contemporary India. Millions of people continue to be mired in poverty and drudgery, although we have the resources and technologies to wipe every tear from every eye. Not a day passes without skeletons of corruption tumbling out of the cupboard from all over the country in most spheres of life including the highest judiciary. The chasm between rural and urban India, agriculture and industry, the poor and the rich has been ever widening.
Dr. JP said, “Let us resolve on the occasion of Deepavali to address some of these burning issues if we want to ensure that the festival of lights will in future at least mark the triumph of good over evil.”
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