Despite PM Modi's 'guarantees', farmers are committing suicide: Sharad Pawar

Nationalist Congress Party NCP founder Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said on one hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi is giving various guarantees to cultivators but on the other farmers are committing suicide due to growing debt reported news agency PTIAddressing NCP Sharadchandra Pawar workers at a conclave at Manchar in Ambegaon tehsil the home turf of Maharashtra Cabinet minister Dilip Walse Patil in Pune district the former Union agriculture minister painted a grim picture of the farm sectorToday farmers are facing hardships in the country He toils hard but despite that he does not get remunerative price for his products If input cost is high and output is low then it leads to farmers getting debtridden and due to this situation farmers are committing suicide Such a scenario is currently prevalent in the country said the veteran politician reported PTINewspapers and television channels are full of advertisements where the PM is seen offering various guarantees to farmers such as good price and market for their produce said the Rajya Sabha memberOn one side there is Modi Ki Guarantee but on the other side somewhere someone referring to farmers is committing suicide said the senior politician while slamming the Centre for its policies reported PTITargeting Walse Patil his onetime confidant who was among the rebel NCP MLAs Pawar said earlier generations of leaders from the area were loyal to their party and did not compromise on ideology but that is no longer the case nowThese present leaders do not show any loyalty to their own party then how can we expect them to be loyal to their voters he said reported PTIWalse Patil is a key member of the NCP led by Deputy CM Ajit Pawar who joined the Shinde government in July last yearMeanwhile former Union minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday claimed the mention of Adarsh housing scam in a white paper tabled in Parliament was kind of a threat prompting Ashok Chavans exit from the Congress reported PTIChavan who joined the BJP last week has denied such claimsHe is an accused in the Adarsh housing society scam wherein a 31storey posh building in south Mumbai was constructed allegedly on land owned by the Defence Ministry without getting the requisite permissions and clearancesThe scandal led to Chavans resignation as the Maharashtras chief minister in 2010Asked about Chavans exit from the Congress Pawar told reporters in Kolhapur that though the development was surprising for everyone he was not surprised personallyThe reason is that the BJP had tabled a white paper on their last 10 years of performance and their opinions about the opposition In that white paper there was a mention of the Adarsh society and Ashok Chavan After that mention we assumed that it could be one kind of a threat and Chavans exit was a result of that threat the NCPSharadchandra Pawar chief said reported PTIPawar debunked reports of his camps merger with the Congress and said We both Congress and NCP work together We Shiv Sena UBT head Uddhav Thackeray and Congress are not separate now Most of the time we sit together and discuss but it does not mean that there is need for a merger reported PTIWith inputs from PTI