Fwd: Money-Lenders & Politicians are Responsible For Suicides of Farmers & Other Poor People

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From: Ashok T. Jaisinghani <ashokjai@sancharnet.in>
Date: Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Subject: Money-Lenders & Politicians are Responsible For Suicides of Farmers & Other Poor People

Money-Lenders & Politicians are Responsible

For Suicides of Farmers & Other Poor People

 

    It is not just the farmers who have been committing suicide due to their inability to pay back the loans taken at very hight rates of interest . Even in large cities of Maharashtra, like Pune and Mumbai, it is very common to find money-lenders who charge interest which can be as high as 10% per month on the loans they give. As the interest is paid every month, it really amounts to paying an interest of more than 120% in a year! Many poor and middle class employees, rickshaw-drivers, small shop-keepers and others, who take small loans, are never able to pay back all the borrowed money, along with such heavy rates of interest, to the money-lenders.

 

    Most of the borrowers can never get out of such debts all their lives, and they lose whatever small assets they own, like the huts or rooms in chawls, rickshaws,  small shops, etc. The money-lenders use their gangsters to threaten the debtors for recovering the money or to forcibly take over the properties of the defaulters who cannot pay the high rates of interest. The police almost never come to the aid of such borrowers because the debt-ridden persons have no money to pay any bribes to them. The police favor the money-lenders who can pay bribes regularly for being allowed to run their illegal business of money-lending.

 

    It is not surprising that even the corrupt politicians like former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and now Union Cabinet Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, favor the money-lenders.

 

    It is quite common for some desperate debt-ridden persons to commit suicide even in towns and cities. Other borrowers are forced to become beggars for the rest of their lives. Many persons, who have been deprived of their lands and homes by the money-lenders and corrupt leaders, have even become terrorists like the Naxalites and Maoists.

 

    Our corrupt leaders are boastfully claiming that India is becoming an economic super-power, but the fact is that India is a super flop. Can India progress fast when the people belonging to the poor and lower middle classes are still being exploited mercilessly by the gangs of money-lenders? While the world is moving forward, India is still following the ancient and medieval systems of ruthless exploitation, which allow the money-lenders to openly cheat and loot the common people of India with the support of the corrupt political leaders and policemen.

 

    We must congratulate the Supreme Court of India for imposing a fine of Rs.10 lakh on the Government of Maharashtra for the crime of "gross misuse of power" committed by the former Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh who prevented the arrest of money-lenders responsible for the suicides of debt-ridden farmers belonging to the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.

 

   Ashok  T. Jaisinghani.
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From: suicideupdate

Sent: 14 Dec 2010 6:34 PM

Subject: [IHRO] Sack Vilasrao Deshmukh, urge Vidarbha farmers-IANS

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Sack Vilasrao Deshmukh, urge Vidarbha farmers-IANS

Sack Vilasrao Deshmukh, urge Vidarbha farmers

"Local legislators are getting political protection with the help of top leaders and are exploiting the debt-trapped farmers who are committing suicide"

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 5:52:08 PM by IANS

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/sack-vilasrao-deshmukh-urge-vidarbha-farmers_100473852.html

Nagpur, Dec 14 (IANS) Farmers of Maharashtra's Vidarbha region have urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to sack Vilasrao Deshmukh as heavy industries minister after the Supreme Court Tuesday pulled him up for interfering in the enforcement of a law to regulate private money lending in the state. "We have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and requested him to sack Deshmukh and take possible legal action against him," said Kishor Tiwari, president of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS), an NGO that protects the rights of farmers and farm widows of the region.

"Local legislators are getting political protection with the help of top leaders and are exploiting the debt-trapped farmers who are committing suicide," Tiwari added.

The Supreme Court Tuesday reprimanded the former Maharashtra chief minister.

Speaking for the bench, Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly dismissed the Maharashtra government's appeal challenging the Bombay High Court order indicting Deshmukh and imposing a fine of Rs.25,000.

Dismissing the appeal, the apex court enhanced the fine to Rs.10 lakh.

Deshmukh invited the reprimand of the apex court for interfering with the police action on a complaint by farmers alleging family members of Congress MLA Dilip Kumar Sananda were involved in money lending.

Deshmukh's private secretary Ambadas had asked the police not to register a FIR on the complaint of the farmers. This instruction of Ambadas was recorded in the police diary.

The judgement came after a petition was filed by Sarnagdharsingh Chavan representing the Vidarbha farmers, who had sought quashing of Deshmukh's directions to stall investigations against Sananda.
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