The CPI (M) today lashed out at NDA government over alleged suicide by a farmer's teenage daughter in Maharashtra saying the Centre has "no sincerity" left towards solving agrarian crisis, which it said, has now started affecting "even the family members" of peasants.
"It is a very sad incident. This child... They also are feeling the pinch of the agrarian crisis in the family of the farmers. And this type of acute crisis forcing the farmers and extending even to the family of the farmers.
"We are fighting against it, but unfortunately the government... They have no concern, do not want to recognise it is farmers' suicide. They have no sympathy, no sincerity to solve the problem. We condemn the government approach," Hannan Mollah, general secretary of All India Kisan Sabha, farmers' wing of CPI(M), reacted.
Swati Pitale (16), daughter of a farmer in drought-hit Latur district of Marathwada, allegedly committed suicide by consuming pesticide as her debt-pressed parents could not buy her a monthly state transport 'bus pass' to commute to college.
In her suicide note, the girl purportedly said she could no longer suffer the plight of her father and did not want to cast on him the additional burden of her marriage.
