Farmers' leader and president of Vidarbha Janandolan Samithi, Kishore Tiwari stated that a separate Vidarbha is the only solution to stop farmers' suicides in this region. He urged the Centre that relief packages were useless in this regard.

 

This has also led to the demand for a Vidarbha state in Maharashtra. Maharashtra revenue Minister Narayan Rane was advocating the cause of Vidarbha. Now farmers leader and president of Vidarbha Janandolan Samithi, Kishore Tiwari stated that a separate Vidarbha is the only solution to stop farmers’ suicides in this region.
 
Deploring over the deepening agrarian crisis and farmers suicides in the region, he said that 20 more farmers killed themselves in first 12 days of December. They were all debt trapped farmers under deep distress due to severe crop failure.

 
According to him, 15 of these dead farmers are from western Vidarbha and the remaining five are from the eastern part of Vidarbha. They belong to the most suicide prone districts like Ammaravati,Yavatmal and Akola.
 
Vidarbha Janandolan Samithi alleged that continuous government apathy toward the long pending backlog and neglect of region has resulted in mass genocide of farmers. Produce being cultivated in the region and state investment in this area is almost nil even after intervention of Governor, under his constitutional right of section 371 hence a separate statehood is the only solution to stop farmers’ suicides of Vidarbha.
 
It urged the Centre that as all relief packages have failed to bring any type of relief. Creating a separate Vidarbha state is the only possible solution.