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Now that the high decibel hype and hullabaloo created over the US President Barack Obama's 3-day visit to India is over, I wanted to ask one question: Did anyone notice the silent protest of hundreds of widows of farmers who have committed suicide over, what the farmers termed, the wrong US farm policy which has claimed more than two lakh farmers' lives in India.
To draw the attention of US President, the widows burnt an effigy of US President Barack Obama to protest against America's agriculture policies and GM seed promotion in India. The protest took place at village Bothbodan, about 12 kms from Yavatmal in Maharashtra, at a time when the US President was in Delhi on the last leg of his three-day India visit.
The farm widows want to draw the attention of Obama towards the fact that huge subsidy by US on American cotton seed led to most severe agrarian crisis in the country resulting into more than 2,16,000 cotton farmers committing suicides in India.
They wanted to drive home the message to Obama that Vidarbha cotton farmers' mass genocide is the result of American policies to protect their cotton farmers and claim that Bt Cotton has brought genetic revolution in agriculture is hoax when 80% of three million cotton growers families are in deep distress and debt and one farmer is committing suicide every eight hours.
While the entire nation's attention was drawn on every bit of Obama's movement in the country from his landing in Mumbai to joint press conference in Delhi to his departure for Jakarta, there was nobody to focus attention on the plight of the thousands of widows who are in one or the other the victims of American policy!
What a pity is this?. Is anybody listening?
