{"id":4192,"date":"2015-07-24T12:31:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2015-07-24T12:31:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:31:32","slug":"english-agriculture-minister-radha-mohan-singh-blames-love-affairs-for-farmers-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/?p=4192","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh blames love affairs for farmers&#8217; suicides<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->In a shocking statement that has put the Bharatiya Janata Party, already on back foot due to Lalitgate and Vyapam scam, in a spot, Union Minister of <a href=\"http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/tags\/agriculture.html\">Agriculture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/tags\/radha-mohan-singh.html\">Radha Mohan Singh<\/a> on Friday said that it was love affairs or impotency that caused the death of more than 1,400 farmers in India this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a written reply in Rajya Sabha to a question on what has caused the death of so many farmers in India, Singh said, &#8220;According to the National Crime Records Bureau, causes of (farmer) suicides include family problems, illness, drugs&#8230; dowry, love affairs and impotency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The minister, however, did not rule out debt as one of the reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks have drawn sharp reactions from the Opposition with Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi saying that his party will file a notice against the Agriculture Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Congress spokesperson and veteran actor Raj Babbar said: \u201cI don&#8217;t think any other party like BJP has so disgusting and insensitive mentality towards the plight of farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Radha Mohan Singh&#8217;s statement has given fresh ammo to the Opposition, which is already hitting out at the government on the controversial land bill by dubbing it as anti-farmer and anti-poor.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking statement that has put the Bharatiya Janata Party, already on back foot due to Lalitgate and Vyapam scam, in a spot, Union Minister of Agriculture Radha Mohan Singh on Friday said that it was love affairs or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}