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The Hindu
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V. Raghavendra

3,000 farmers ended their lives in three years in A.P., says Pawan Kalyan

VIJAYAWADA

Jana Sena Party (JSP) president Pawan Kalyan said Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) stood in the third position in farmer suicides and second in suicides by tenant farmers due to the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government’s negligence in solving their problems. He alleged that 3,000 farmers killed themselves in the last three years due to distress..

The farmers took agricultural lands on lease and had to pay exorbitant rates of interest on loans which they were forced to take from private lenders. The mounting debt burden and the vagaries of the market left a large number of the beleaguered farmers with no option except to end their lives, he said. 

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