The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government has pushed back on actor Jayasurya’s accusation that youth took a bleak view of agriculture as a chosen line of work given the government’s “high-profile failure” to pay off the outsize debt owed to impoverished paddy farmers.
Mr. Jayasurya’s controversial statement aired at a public function attended by Agriculture Minister P. Prasad and Law Minister P. Rajeeve in Kochi on Thursday had triggered a social media storm.
He also said farmers who fed Kerala starved during Onam, which some quarters construed as a barbed and patently false anti-government remark.
