Farmer Drought Remark

Fending off the BJP's attacks over one of his ministers allegedly claiming that farmers wish for droughts so that they can get loan waivers, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that the remark was made in jest.

A Karnataka minister is at the centre of a controversy for an insensitive remark that farmers "wish for drought year after year so that their loans get waived".

A week after he made a crass remark ridiculing a farmer who was on a hunger strike on the drought situation in the state, Maharashtra Deputy Chief minister Ajit Pawar, as an act of his repentance, is on a day-long hunger strike in the Satara district of Maharashtra.

The farmer whose hunger strike provoked Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar to make a crass remark on drought-hit Maharashtra's water shortage, is shifting his protest today from Mumbai's Azad Maidan to outside the house of the Chief Minister, who is likely to make a statement in the Assembly on the incident today.

Ajit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, has said that his crass and insensitive remarks about the water and power problems that are overwhelming his state's farmers in the midst of a severe drought were the "biggest mistake" of his political life.

Ajit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, apologised this morning for his crass and insensitive remarks about the water and power problems that are overwhelming his state's farmers in the midst of a severe drought. "Should we urinate to create water?" he had asked publicly over the weekend.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar stirred up a controversy yesterday when he said "If there is no water in the dam...Should we urinate into it?" Mr Pawar had said this in context to a two-month-long protest by a farmer, who is demanding dam water for his parched field. After much outrage, he apologised saying "These remarks were not made...

Maharashtra's deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar today apologised for ridiculing a two-month-long protest by a farmer, who was demanding the release of water from a dam for his parched field. In a statement issued in the evening, Mr Pawar said he is sorry for "hurting sentiments" with his comment.

Fending off the BJP's attacks over one of his ministers allegedly claiming that farmers wish for droughts so that they can get loan waivers, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that the remark was made in jest.

A Karnataka minister is at the centre of a controversy for an insensitive remark that farmers "wish for drought year after year so that their loans get waived".

A week after he made a crass remark ridiculing a farmer who was on a hunger strike on the drought situation in the state, Maharashtra Deputy Chief minister Ajit Pawar, as an act of his repentance, is on a day-long hunger strike in the Satara district of Maharashtra.

The farmer whose hunger strike provoked Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar to make a crass remark on drought-hit Maharashtra's water shortage, is shifting his protest today from Mumbai's Azad Maidan to outside the house of the Chief Minister, who is likely to make a statement in the Assembly on the incident today.

Ajit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, has said that his crass and insensitive remarks about the water and power problems that are overwhelming his state's farmers in the midst of a severe drought were the "biggest mistake" of his political life.

Ajit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, apologised this morning for his crass and insensitive remarks about the water and power problems that are overwhelming his state's farmers in the midst of a severe drought. "Should we urinate to create water?" he had asked publicly over the weekend.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar stirred up a controversy yesterday when he said "If there is no water in the dam...Should we urinate into it?" Mr Pawar had said this in context to a two-month-long protest by a farmer, who is demanding dam water for his parched field. After much outrage, he apologised saying "These remarks were not made...

Maharashtra's deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar today apologised for ridiculing a two-month-long protest by a farmer, who was demanding the release of water from a dam for his parched field. In a statement issued in the evening, Mr Pawar said he is sorry for "hurting sentiments" with his comment.