Karnataka election insights: Will the agrarian crisis pose a challenge to Siddaramaih’s regime?

For a good part of its tenure, the Siddaramiah government in Karnataka has been dogged by farm distress. Between April 2013 and November 2017, as many as 3,515 farmers in the state committed suicide. Of these, the Karnataka agricultural department accepted that 2,525 deaths were due to drought and crop failure.

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