These shocking statements were made by none other than the Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh in Rajya Sabha this afternoon. In a reply to a question shot by one of the members of the Upper House over more than 1400 farmers’ suicides in one year, the minister got everyone stunned as he said that ‘impotency and love affairs and even extramarital affairs’ are the reasons behind their suicides.
The minister quoted the National Crime Records Bureau’s report which included drugs and alcohol addiction, illness, dowry, family problems, love affairs, extramarital affairs, impotency etc as the main reasons behind these suicides. The minister’s comments naturally sparked off severe uproar and on being questioned, Radha Mohan Singh defended his words and said that he only quoted NCRB’s reports.
This is not the first time a BJP leader made controversial comments on farmers’ suicides as in the past too, the Haryana Agriculture Minister OP Shankar made a furor by calling the farmers who committed suicides as cowards. The NCRB reported that more than 5650 farmers committed suicides in 2014 alone out if which 1163 suicides were due to debts and bankruptcy.
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