India’s farmers need us

It is a known fact that farmers are the backbone of our nation, India (“India elections will be a test of adaptability”, Gulf News, December 4). However, the present day political leaders seldom give any importance to their needs, which has prompted the farmers to come out in numbers to the national capital to highlight their suffering. Ironically, the Congress, who was heading the government for more than five decades, never took any positive steps to uplift the farmers, are leading the present protest. Had they taken some care during their tenures, we should have been ahead in the world in all spheres of life. The present day political leaders have coolly forgotten the golden words of the past politicians. It is time our present-day leaders stop shedding crocodile tears and try to help our farmers in every possible way, to improve production of food to improve the living standards of our poor farmers. Waiving of loans alone is not a solution to this. From Mr N. Mahadevan

India