Centre, Kerala govt neglecting agriculture sector: BJP

BJP national secretary P Muralidhar Rao today said both the centre and the state of Kerala had failed to evolve a concrete policy to revive the agriculture sector.
    
"We have become a food importing country due to the government's neglect of the agriculture sector. This will affect our future food security and the consequences of this policy will be disastrous for the nation," Rao said, addressing reporters.
    
He said this year's Kerala budget also did not have any package for farmers, while it had many proposals for other sections of society. In states like Gujarat, Bihar and Punjab, the governments lay stress on programmes for farmers along with industrialisation, he said.
    
Reports of farmers' suicides were not coming from these states as the governments there considered agriculture as the core sector and provided adequate support to their cause.    

On the corruption issue, Rao said BJP would take the issue at the national level. "Everyday, one scam or the other is being exposed, be it 2G spectrum, S Band or CWG. The BJP is firm on its demand for a JPC probe into the 2G spectrum scam," he said.
    
Opposition leader in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj will attend the concluding function of the `Kerala Raksha Padayatra' led by BJP state president V Muraleedharan here on February 26.