Bengaluru: HD Ranganath, the Congress MLA from Kunigal in Karnataka’s Tumakuru, has requested for particular incentives to be given to ladies marrying younger farmers. He has written to CM Siddaramaiah, asking him to think about the proposal to handle what he termed a rising downside inside the farming neighborhood within the state.

“There’s a state of affairs the place nobody desires an alliance with a farmer in rural areas,” Ranganath instructed reporters Wednesday. Considerations voiced by him have been raised in different components of the nation, together with in Maharashtra’s Vidharba area.

The proposal is being dubbed the ‘seventh assure’, after the ‘sixth assure’ beneath which landless farmers are to be given land deeds.

Ranganath is seen as an all-weather supporter of Deputy CM DK Shivakumar.

Governments, each on the centre and within the state, place a lot emphasis on the struggles of farmers, together with guarantees to double their incomes, reverential references like ‘annadaatas’, however the rising agrarian misery continues so as to add to the uncertainty of their private lives, Ranganath stated.

He added that many younger males from farming households, now approaching 30, are unable to search out brides. “Beneath the regulation, we’re asking if some incentives will be given.”

He added that this may be modelled across the current ‘Gruha Lakshmi’ scheme of the Congress authorities beneath which ladies head of households are entitled to monetary help of Rs 2,000 monthly. The Congress authorities has applied 5 ensures thus far, which price the exchequer Rs 52,000 crore every year.

Fluctuating market costs, rising stress on land holdings, falling costs of produce and vagaries in local weather have added to the challenges of farmers throughout the nation. In Karnataka, 414 farmers died by suicide within the first 9 months of the present fiscal 12 months (as much as 31 December, 2025), in keeping with authorities information.

N Chaluvarayaswamy, Karnataka’s minister for agriculture, in response to a query within the winter session of the state legislature, stated 2,846 farmer suicides have been recorded within the state over the previous 33 months. Although particular causes for the deaths weren’t talked about, he stated 1,254 farmer suicides have been recorded within the state in 2023-24 and 1,178 in 2024-25.

(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)

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