Kanhaiyyalal Gidwani, president of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee’s Consumer Protection, Market, Industries and Commerce Cell, on Saturday demanded that Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar should resign while accepting the moral responsibility of the disastrous situation of the sugar industry caused by the drastic fall in sugar prices.Addressing a press conference, Gidwani said he has dashed off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Pawar himself and Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram in regards to the crisis faced by the sugar industry and sugar cane growers.“Currently, farmers all over the country are in a precarious situation and if the Central government fails to act in a well planned manner, they will be facing doom,” Gidwani said. He added that the government must ensure that the bumper crop of sugar cane is converted to the benefit of the sugar industry which will help put India on the global export market for sugar.
