'High fuel price burdening farmers'
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, June 24 2021: The skyrocketing fuel prices are over-burdening the farmers of the state, Loumi Marup state president Nongthombam Singhajit has stated.

Speaking on the sidelines of a protest staged against petrol price hike on Thursday, Singhajit expressed strong resentment that the Modi government's acts of enacting anti-farm laws and hiking fuel prices especially during the Covid-19 pandemic has put immense burden on the farmers, forcing many of them to commit suicide.

Following the hike in fuel prices, the rate for using power tillers has also increased, while there is no open market to sell the produces.

In addition, farmers are losing money in transporting their produces.

The situation is even worse in Manipur, as the state government refuses to exempt the taxes on fuel like in other states.

As such, demands were raised to lower the fuel prices and for the government to purchase the unsold paddy from the farmers, he conveyed.

On the other hand, CPI Manipur State Council assistant secretary M Joykumar issued a press release on Thursday recounting that PM Modi had vowed to provide jobs to 1 crore youth in the country in 2014 .

However, over 2 crore people have lost their jobs instead.

The vow to make India the third richest country in Asia and to raise the GDP to 5 trillion dollars is now infeasible as could be comprehended from inflation rate and the GDP falling to 3.1 per cent from 7.8 percent.

All of these were caused by the NDA government's decision to follow neo-liberal economic policy, which caters to selling off the country's wealth and privatisation, ultimately putting the people under huge financial difficulty.

Thus, he called for collective stand against such anti-people policies.

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