The Congress on Tuesday held the policies of the ruling BJP dispensation responsible for farmers' suicides in the country, claiming that one farmer died by suicide every hour.

Addressing a press conference in the wake of a September 17 suicide of Pune-based Dashrath Lakshman Kedari, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said the farmer, in his suicide note, held "the BJP government's policies responsible for his death and noted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was concerned only with himself".