UP govt's loan waiver temporary relief: BKU

The Bhartiya Kisan Union today said the loan waiver announced by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was a "temporary relief", and urged the Prime Minister to look at farmer suicides as a "national calamity".
"The loan waiver announced by the Uttar Prdesh government will definitely give some relief to the farmers in distress, but it will be just a temporary relief as a lot needs to be done for the class which feeds the nation," BKU president Bhupinder Singh Mann said here.
"The massive suicides by farmers should be treated as national calamity and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should use his discretionary funds to bail out the farmers," he said.

Mann said debt reliefs were temporary measures, "just like giving pain killers to a cancer patients."
"The solution lies in giving adequate prices for the crops as recommended by Dr Swaminathan," he said.
Although Modi had promised to implement this in his manifesto, he later backed out, the official added.
Delivering on BJP's poll promise to small and marginal farmers, the Yogi Adityanath cabinet had yesterday decided to waive their crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh, totalling a staggering Rs 36,359 crore, at its very first meeting.