Last Minute Permission - 5 Minutes Audience At Last

Nagpur, June. 14 :
The Maharashtra Government earlier denied permission to widows of farmers who committed suicide to meet President A P J Abdul Kalam during his visit to Yavatamal on June 15 by now after media exposed the apathy of administration over the farmers suicides issue, collector of yavatmal abha shukla infomed VJAS leader kishor tiwari that hon,ble president of India has given the permission to meet vidarbha farm widows delegation at yavatmal air port at around 10 a.m. for 5 minuts.

kamalabai goswami pawar and his son prakash pawar of village kolzari where indian prime minister Dr. manmohan singh was to visit last year on 1st july 2006 but failed to do so because of opposition of local administration and swarswatibai ramdas ambarwar the widows who featured in the yesterdays article of national daily hindu written by p.sainath has been included in the delegation .
widows nanda bhandare rekha gurnule and smita bakamwar will also present their plights of the vidarbha farm widows
The vidarbha jan andolan samiti earlier had sought a five-minute appointment with the President to brief him about the prevailing situation and the President's office also had shown keenness but it was rejected by the Maharashtra government, citing administrative and law and order problems
VJAS alleged thatd the government wants only the leader of the delegation to meet the President but this will not serve the purpose. If the President interacts with farmers and the widows, he will come to know about the condition of distressed farmers.

kishor tiwari added that the Samiti, which does not want to politicise the issue, decided to present case before the president and will request him ask details of farmers suicides under article 72 of Indian Constitution .In vidarbha in last 4 years more than 4000 cotton farmers committed suicides and vidarbha is sitting on suicide volcano so it is not expected to from president of India to attend fanfare of private college function ,VJAS leader has requested him to cut short his visit from air port itself so that it will not carry the wrong impression to international media who is covering vidarbha agrarian crisis ,kishor tiwari added.
we will try to present our case and raise main demands of loan waiver and better price to cotton before prez,so that it will serve our purpose to pressure maharashtra Govt.,kishor tiwari said