Farmer Suicide Controversy

Maharashtra's top legal officer Shreehari Aney, who resigned on Tuesday after a furore in the state assembly over his controversial speech where he advocated separate statehood for Maharashtra's backward region of Marathwada, told NDTV he had no regrets as he spoke in the interest of the state.

The government was today urged to act urgently to prevent suicides by farmers in Maharashtra who have been hit hard by the drought and were facing distress.

In controversial remarks, BJP lawmaker Gopal Shetty has attributed farmers' suicides to a "fashion" and "trend" to end lives.

Days after Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh stoked a controversy by his remark that love affairs were among the reasons for farmer suicides, a BJP leader today said NCP chief Sharad Pawar had made a similar statement in Parliament in 2013.

Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh broke down on national television when deceased farmer Gajendra Singh's daughter posed questions to him about her father's death at a rally which the AAP had organised.

Yes, I did say that "if something like this happened in the future I would ask Arvind to climb the trees and save the person". This became a big controversy and it ran as a headline on TV channels.

In Vidarbha, rocked by farmer suicides, a new controversy is brewing. In one sweep, over the past year, the state government cleared a whopping 85 power projects across this region. For this they have sanctioned 2200 million cubic metres of water from irrigation projects, which could have watered an estimated five lakh hectares of farmland.

Maharashtra's top legal officer Shreehari Aney, who resigned on Tuesday after a furore in the state assembly over his controversial speech where he advocated separate statehood for Maharashtra's backward region of Marathwada, told NDTV he had no regrets as he spoke in the interest of the state.

The government was today urged to act urgently to prevent suicides by farmers in Maharashtra who have been hit hard by the drought and were facing distress.

In controversial remarks, BJP lawmaker Gopal Shetty has attributed farmers' suicides to a "fashion" and "trend" to end lives.

Days after Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh stoked a controversy by his remark that love affairs were among the reasons for farmer suicides, a BJP leader today said NCP chief Sharad Pawar had made a similar statement in Parliament in 2013.

Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh broke down on national television when deceased farmer Gajendra Singh's daughter posed questions to him about her father's death at a rally which the AAP had organised.

Yes, I did say that "if something like this happened in the future I would ask Arvind to climb the trees and save the person". This became a big controversy and it ran as a headline on TV channels.

In Vidarbha, rocked by farmer suicides, a new controversy is brewing. In one sweep, over the past year, the state government cleared a whopping 85 power projects across this region. For this they have sanctioned 2200 million cubic metres of water from irrigation projects, which could have watered an estimated five lakh hectares of farmland.