The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) opposition walked out of the Kerala Legislative Assembly (KLA), accusing the government of pushing rubber and paddy farmers into a debt trap and remaining apathetic to the existential crisis in the State’s traditional agriculture sector.
Seeking the leave of the House to introduce an adjournment motion to debate the subject, Congress legislator Sunny Joseph said the High Court had set October 24 as the deadline for the government to compensate paddy farmers.
“Such was their need in the face of government’s apathy that farmers had to seek judicial intervention to get compensated,” he said.
