“Now, sugar mills find themselves in a fix – in addition to the financial burden imposed by this ban, they are also worried about the fire hazard posed by their existing stocks of ethanol and spirits, which are incredibly combustible materials,” he said.Neither has the Centre’s reactionary policy helped the farmers – the greater than expected supply of sugarcane has lowered prices for the crop, especially given the drop in demand due to the ethanol ban, he said.”Is the non-biological PM going to take responsibility for this disastrous shift in policy? Does the BJP have any plans to rectify the problems they have created for the sugar industry?” Ramesh said.”Why is the non-biological PM ignoring the demand for granting Marathi classical language status?” Ramesh said.He said that when Dr.Manmohan Singh was prime minister, Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and Odia were declared classical Indian languages.”In the non-biological PM’s tenure, zero languages have been accorded classical language status. For ten years, he has done nothing on the well-argued case submitted by then Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, on 11th July, 2014, to declare Marathi as a classical Indian language,” Ramesh said.”What explains the non-biological PM’s special apathy to Marathi culture?” he said.
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