‘Pray to God Modi Govt Doesn’t Return to Power’: Vidarbha Farmers

‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ was a slogan given by Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1965. Almost 55 years after that slogan and 70 years after Independence, the farmers of Maharashtra’s Vidarbha are still taking their own lives.

Year after year after year, successive governments have failed to address the farmer crisis. The Quint spoke to farmers from the Akola district of the Vidarbha region, where the farmers give a report card of the Modi government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Lydbog: 20. marts 2019