‘So this is your respect for farmers’: JD(S) slams Kharge for his ‘I planted 40 acres’ rebuke | India News

Mallikarjun Kharge was seen dismissing a farmer who got here to his Kalaburagi home with his crop loss grievances.

NEW DELHI: The JDS slammed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for his interplay with a farmer, the place he drove him away, dismissing his grievances, saying that he suffered extra crop injury than the farmer. JDS accused Kharge of mocking the farmer and claimed that for the Congress, farmers are solely a matter of speeches and manifestos. “Mr Kharge, after decades in politics, holding powerful posts, becoming @INCIndia’s national president, having your son @PriyankKharge as a minister, and your party ruling the state, you still don’t have the patience to listen to farmers in your own district? Compensation for the distressed is too much to expect, I suppose,” the JDS deal with posted on X.“For Congress, farmers seem to matter only in speeches and manifestos. In reality, your arrogance says it all,” it mentioned. Kharge was seen accusing the farmer of searching for publicity by coming to his home in Kalaburagi with his crop downside. “How many acres did you plant?” Kharge was seen saying within the clip.“4 acres? I planted in 40 acres and mine has been damaged worse than this,” Kharge mentioned. “This is like the saying that one who has delivered three kids comes to a person who has delivered 6 and talks about the struggle,” Kharge mentioned including that he was conscious of the crop loss problem. “Don’t come here just for the sake of publicity, I am aware of this issue, I am aware of the crop losses this year. You may be able to sustain, but it is difficult for us. It is difficult to sustain with the size of our plantation,” he mentioned.Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar has just lately been accused of threatening farmers protesting in Ramanagara towards the Greater Bengaluru Governance Authority Project. The farmers are protesting as they worry lack of their agricultural lands below the RMG undertaking. DK issued a stern warning to the farmers and mentioned he had additionally given 12 acres of land up to now. “You can’t do anything except shout slogans. Farmers should fight but don’t do politics,” DKS mentioned.