If govt can spend crores on bullet train, why it has no money for milk farmers: Shiv Sena


Mumbai, Jul 17 (PTI): Coming out in support of the ongoing protest by dairy farmers in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena today sought to know why the government cannot hike the milk procurement prices when it can spend crores on big-ticket projects like the bullet train.

Farmers’ organisations in the state have launched a protest to demand a hike of Rs 5 per litre in milk procurement prices. As part of the protest, which began early Monday, milk tankers are being blocked in several districts of Maharashtra by protesters.

“This agitation cannot be ignored just because it was launched by (farmer leader) Raju Shetti. Farmers neither belong to any particular religion or caste, nor any political party. Over 3,000 farmers have ended their lives in the last four years and majority of them had voted for (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi,” the Sena said.

“Last year’s strike by farmers to press for their demands was a disgrace for the government. Now, instead of suppressing the ongoing agitation of dairy farmers, the state should think about how it can provide relief to them,” the party said in an editorial in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led party alleged that on the one hand, the government will try to break the agitation, while on the other it would chant the slogans of ‘Jai Kisan’.

While the government has fixed Rs 27 per litre as the procurement price of milk, currently it is being procured only at Rs 16-18, the party said. “The Goa and Karnataka governments give Rs 5 per litre subsidy to milk farmers. So what is wrong if the farmers in Maharashtra also seek a similar relief? The government is spending thousands of crores on bullet train, Samruddhi Corridor and Metro rail projects.

“It is even taking a loan for the bullet train, but not willing to increase the procurement price by Rs 5. PM Modi announced a hike in MSP for agricultural goods, but Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should clarify whether the farmers in Maharashtra will also get that benefit or not,” it added.

The farmers, who once voted Modi to power, have now became disillusioned and distressed, it said adding, “In the recent Bhandara-Gondiya Lok Sabha bypoll, the BJP was defeated by the farmers and the party’s win in Palghar bypoll is meaningless.”

The Sena said that people tolerated the all-time high fuel price hike, but for these farmers, increase in the milk procurement price is a matter of life and death. “Where does the stubbornness, with which the government is trying to implement the Nanar refinery and bullet train projects, go when it comes to giving justice to farmers?” the party asked.

  

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  • Langoolacharya, Belman / Washington,DC

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    Ivan,

    We need a Bullet Train from Belman to Mudarangady( your home town) Via Pelathakatte...

    If you add this in your election manifesto...my support for you during elections...

    ...JH...

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  • El En Tea, Mumbai

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    Shiv Sena first go for no trust motion against BJP rule like other majority party agreed.

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  • Tilak Kamath Mithrabettu, Shirva

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    Interesting story there. It's almost like India of all countries is contributing to Japan who's having an economic turmoil. The interest India owes is about 0.1% per annuum (88Cr per year) plus the principal. So unless the passenger tickets can make up for the Interest plus the Principal over the years, of the order of at least 88Cr Rupees, I am not sure how this will be an economically viable project. Of course 88Cr is nothing for Japan or India for that matter, this project could hold India at ransom if subsequent Japanese govts hold us at gunpoint in the future. Quite a risky business.

    Maybe just for the 56inch show-off that at least Bullet Train le ke aaya.

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  • Dinesh, Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    Modi milk the farmers by his sweet words.....before 15 lac this time 30 lac. Just attend his rallies and vote his MP s.

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  • AMAR NATHAL, MANGALORE

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    Karthik Karkera, Maryhill Mangalore, claims that the bullet train is funded by Japan. Funded does not mean a free gift. Its a loan. We pay for it. Not PM.

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  • Rajesh, Mangalore DK

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    Now Karthik has chance to open tea stall in bullet train

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    Imagine the pain that milk farmers must be undergoing.

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  • Karthik Karkera, Maryhill Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    I think Shivsena has forgotten that bullet train is funded by Japan

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  • Vidisha, mumbai

    Wed, Jul 18 2018

    We still have to pay back the amount spent. It is not free.

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  • Deva, Pilar

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    Sene knows very well the Bullet train will be operated only between Modi's Gujarat & Sene's Amchi Mumbai...then why all drama ?????

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  • Blind Bhakth, Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    Bullet Trains gives us very high Foreign Exchange which goes directly to our Swiss account whereas milk from farmers is gift from Gau Matha so price attached.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Jul 17 2018

    Shiv Sena should first quit NDA first & then do Bakwas ...

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