Farmers in India are demanding compensation from their
government for ruining their farmland — and they are
putting their lives on the line.
Twenty-five thousand farmers signed a petition to India's
President Pranab Mukherjee saying they will hang
themselves on India's Independence Day — Saturday,
August 15 — if the government does not meet their
demands, reported the Times of India .
The farmers are from the rural district of Mathura and are
protesting a bridge that the government constructed in 1998
and that submerged 700 acres of the farmers' land. The
farmers are seeking eight billion rupees from the
government in compensation.
The group is being represented by Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, a
farmer's coalition.
The government promised it would address similar protests
in February, Kunwar Nishad, a representative of Bharatiya
Kisan Sangh, told the Times of India , "but the promise was
never fulfilled."
"On the contrary, several protesters were falsely implicated
for loot and dacoity," Nishad said. Dacoity is a Hindi term
for banditry.
Maybe the government's too busy in foreign trips, blaming other parties, personel cough treatment, IQ classes.
Let some of them die then we'll be there show all the sympathy, not to forget compensation for those who lost their lives!! Pity.
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