Bengaluru: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s seeming rebuke to a farmer who got here to him to complain about crop losses has drawn sharp response from the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) and different Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents.

In a viral video, Kharge is seen seated with one in all his aides when a farmer approaches and mentions his grievance. When the farmer says that he has suffered losses within the 4 acres that he has sown resulting from flooding within the area, Kharge retorts that he himself has borne crop losses in 40 acres and his situation was far worse. “Don’t come right here for publicity,” Kharge is heard purportedly telling the farmer.

Kharge says that the farmer ought to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Residence Minister Amit Shah in regards to the crop losses.

Like a number of different states, Karnataka has confronted intense rains over the previous few weeks. It recorded 810.2 mm of cumulative rainfall between 1 June and seven September as towards the conventional rainfall of 707, registering a 15 % improve, based on the India Meteorological Division (IMD).

Northern Karnataka, which incorporates Kalaburagi within the north-eastern a part of the state, recorded 518.3 mm of precise rainfall as towards a standard of 367.5 mm, registering a 41 % improve.

Union minister H.D.Kumaraswamy Monday lashed out on the nationwide Congress president over his “vanity” and insensitivity in direction of farmers.

In an extended publish on social media platform ‘X’, he stated that this sort of behaviour doesn’t swimsuit a pacesetter of Kharge’s stature.

“That show of vanity in direction of a farmer who got here solely to precise his grief was pointless. You too could also be a toor dal farmer, however how can there be any comparability between an individual such as you cultivating 40 acres and a poor farmer cultivating only one or two acres? You’ve got the capability to bear the loss. Shouldn’t the farmer be given that very same energy?” the Janata Dal (Secular) chief stated in a publish on ‘X’.

Kumaraswamy stated Kharge insulted the farmer which was “unacceptable”. “Your conduct is proof of the standard vanity and ego of the Congress social gathering.”

Karnataka BJP chief B.Y.Vijayendra additionally hit out at Kharge, stating that the incident displays the Congress president’s “intolerance and dismissive perspective” in direction of the farming neighborhood.

“Since independence, @INCIndia has by no means labored to uplift farmers from dire circumstances; the Congress has shed extra crocodile tears for poor farmers than taken motion. Yesterday’s conduct by Kharge serves as proof of this….,” he stated.

BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, whereas addressing a press convention on the social gathering headquarters in New Delhi, stated: “What kind of vanity is that this? Kharge sahab, he (the farmer) got here to you along with his ache as a result of your social gathering guidelines Karnataka…So, if a farmer involves you, is {that a} time to indicate off? Or for publicity? So kindly chorus from making remarks akin to ‘We stand with the farmer’ or ‘How Rahul Gandhi stands with the farmers’.”

Prasad then skilled his weapons at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi: “In truth, I’ll ask my secretary to launch all of Rahul’s massive and empty guarantees. Anyway, the place is he these days? It might’ve been good if he had visited Karnataka or Punjab, the place the farmers are in bother and drowning. However wherever Rahul Gandhi is vacationing, good for him. What can I say? When one is an off-the-cuff politician, this stuff occur…”

(Edited by Tony Rai)

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