Mangala Shivaji Betwar - Letter to ManMohan Singh

(THIS IS TRANSLATION OF LETTER OF ONE OF WIDOWS HAS WRITTEN TO INDIAN PRIME MINISTER FOR HELP)
To,
Dr. Man Mohan Singh,
Indian Prime Minister, Government of India
New Delhi-1100011

REF : YOUR HEALING TOUCH TO VIDARBHA FARM WIDOWS IS MISSING
SUB : PLEASE ARRANGE TO SAVE VIDARBHA FARM WIDOWS

Respected sir,

1. My husband Shivaji Betwar of Kelapur in Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, had killed himself by hanging to tree in August of last year after your announcement of package and you specially asked District Collector to give healing touch to farm widows of west Vidarbha.
Please see this photo below :

He was a cotton farmer, and he was forced to commit suicide as local bankers Bank of Maharashtra, Pahapal branch had failed to give him crop loan even though he was not defaulter.
2. Then since after the his sad death, I was told by local administration that as per promise made by you, the relief aid will be given to me as I have two small kids one age 4 and other age 7. After the death of my husband, nobody is there to look after me here at my in laws place. Nobody is there to look after our land too.
3. To day local Tahsildar has told me that Yavatmal District Collector has rejected my case as there was no crop loan, against by husband's name when he committed suicide. It was matter of surprise that when local bank has not given us loan and credit crunch has been reason of distress to commit suicide, I am being refused the compensation.
4. In order to avoid my kid's starvation, I went back to my mother's place in Andhra Pradesh mandal Besa in Adilabad district. But it was very difficult for them to feed my family as my brother is farm labor and I was forced to return back to dead husband's place in Maharashtra.
PRAYER :
Dear Prime Minister, it has been very difficult to live in these pathetic condition where as babus in local administration have not giving any help to me, I am writing to you that after your Vidarbha visit more than 1000 Farm Widows compensation claims have been rejected, in order to show the effect of your package, that suicides have declined, and we are innocent victims of your administrative politics.
You are kindly requested to save my small kids and help me.
Yours sincerely,
MANGALA SHIVAJI BETWAR

Chidambaram Eyes For Sensex Only

It seems Shri Chidambaram, Indian Finance Minister, has made up his mind.
He and the Congress, have no time for even listening to the complaints of the suicidal cotton farmers of Vidarbha, much less, addressing the issue of the siphoning of agricultural surplus from Indian villages.
Now the question is whether this neglect of Indian farmers by the central Congress government, will have any political impact on the image, of Shrimati Sonia Gandhi amongst rural voters or not. In the short run it certainly will not. The mood of the voters shows that she is still considered the rahanuma of the Indian villages.

Kishor Tiwari of Vidarbha JanAndolan Samiti is returning empty handed to Vidarbha after not even being considered for a meeting with Shri Chidambaram. Apparently, Shri Chidambaram is busier attracting European pension funds to invest in Indian stock markets rather than responding to the mental health of farmers in the cotton belts of India.

He does have a point too though. After all India needs to emulate China in a very short time and this is the economic model being vigourously pursued by the Oxbridge economists in charge of economic policy making. Moreover, he feels he really does not have any role to play in addressing the situation of Indian farmers and the rising debt levels.

Yes, of course, when Shri Sharad Pawar is looking after the Agriculture Ministry and taking care of the sugar farmers, why should Shri Chidambaram feel the need to open his mouth. His remit is the IRS bureaucracy, the stock markets and providing funds for 6 lanes highways to run from the southern ports to the rural hinterland in the north. He has to merely point out the figures of investment in rural infrastructure and leave the rest to Shri Pawar to take care of.

Shri Sharad Pawar is of course busy trying to reconcile the impossible conflict, in his dual role as Agriculture Minister of India and seeing if Indian farmers are able to sell their produce in the market, and buying food for urban consumers in southern India at the cheapest prices, in his role as a Food Minister of India. He surely has a tough job and when one considers that he also has the unenviable tasks of justifying the high levels of pesticides in the milk that Indian mothers have to feed to their children, and backing the return to form of Saurav Ganguly in Indian cricket, one cannot but feel that such immense responsibilities are being thrust at him. How will he cope with all of these roles ?

At least someone must rise to the ocassion and come to the rescue of Shri Sharad Pawar as he juggles between his various important roles in the central government.
And who else will it be if not the suicidal farmers of Vidarbha ?
Maybe the farmers of Vidarbha, have to repay many debts of past lives, to Shri Sharad Pawar and they have to do it in this lifetime.

So who is going to foot the electoral bill in the next elections ? Yes this will surely begin to cause sleepless nights for some of the people in Congress circles who are well connected with the rural mood.