''There is incoherence at the highest levels of government'': BJP

New Delhi, June 28 (UNI) Taking cognisance of the ''confusion'' in the government about the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his tour of Maharashtra, the BJP today claimed there was ''absolute incoherence'' at the highest levels of the Government.

BJP Spokespersons Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar said that Mr Pawar's refusal to accompany Dr Singh on his tour of Vidarbha region which has seen the suicides of over 500 farmers during the last two years only highlighted the confusion and contradictions within the UPA not just on policy issues but also on regional matters.

They alleged that the UPA had failed to come up with right package to the cotton farmers who were left with no options but to succumb after successive droughts and failed cotton crops. The Government had no definite plans to redeem the farmers loans nor did they sensitise the farmers about the dangers of going in for genetically modified BT Cotton. After the failed crops, the government did nothing to discipline the sellers of GM Cotton seeds, they noted.

''The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party of Sharad Pawar could not shirk their responsibilities just by blaming each other.

They should pay compensation to the affected families and give work to the surviving members of the farmers committing suicides,'' Mr Javadekar said.

Taking exception to Congress President Sonia Gandhi ''misleading'' the people about the Rural Employment Schemes during her tour of Rajasthan, Mr Prasad said Mrs Gandhi should not forget that the UPA Government had changed all the NDA schemes in the names of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. She had also failed to understand that Rajasthan government had sought Centre's approval for increasing the quantum of food and money to be paid to the persons taking Food for Work Programme under Employment Guarantee Scheme. ''It is better that Mrs Gandhi should visit Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh where farmers were commiting suicides,'' Mr Javadekar said.

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