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April 05, 2021 00:53 IST
We are all in the same depths of darkness as we have been in the past, says a farmers deep in debt and distress
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In distress: Mathura Mondal, a marginal farmer, who hosted BJP president J.P. Nadda in January at Musthali in Bardhaman district.
We are all in the same depths of darkness as we have been in the past, says a farmers deep in debt and distress In the villages behind lush paddy fields along the road from Bardhaman town to Katwa, there is agrarian distress, and no one knows it better than the farmers of Musthali. Only a couple of months before the West Bengal Assembly election began, hundreds of journalists and scores of camera crews had descended on the village when BJP president J.P. Nadda had lunch at the home of a small marginal farmer, Mathura Mondal.