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Bajwa gives clarion call to Badal to lead all party delegation to the residence of Prime Minsiter Modi
Phagwara/Jalandhar/Chandigarh, August 25: The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today called upon the Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal to immediately call emergency session of Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Farmers Issue and lead an all-party delegation to the Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi to take up the issues agitating the farmers leading to increasing incidence of suicides. Mr Bajwa also demanded a package for the debt ridden farmers of the State on the lines of a package given by UPA.
“The farmers issues concern the entire country as it is the farmer who feeds the nation. The Punjabi farmers played a stellar role in providing food security to the country but the tragedy is that the farmers in this food bowl of the country are forced to commit suicides due to deepening crisis in the farm sector. It is understandable that the state government at its own can’t deal with the problem that needs a comprehensive approach”, he added.
Mr. Bajwa said the Government has literally failed to give 3 lakh compensations to the farmers who committed suicide due to agrarian crises, he also demanded Rs. 25, 000 compensation for the farmers who have been into losses for cotton crop in Malwa.
Bajwa said in the last 5 years more than 3.50 lakhs farmers have committed suicide across the country, Bajwa demanded a waiver of crop loan and introduction of the Money laundering act in Punjab, he also demanded interest free loan to the farmers on the pattern of Haryana Government.
Mr Bajwa said the families of the farmers who had committed suicides had been waiting for years for compensation and the official apathy and delay defeated the very purpose of providing some relief to the bereaved family.
He reminded Mr Badal that all these years, he had been claiming himself to be the champion of the farmers’ cause but they have been agitating for what is due to them and was being denied on one pretext or the other.
Mr Bajwa demanded that the step government must initiate steps that were within its powers. The rest should be taken care of by the government at the centre which should evolve a comprehensive agrarian policy keeping in view different situation in each state.
He extended total support to the farmers struggling for their rights and at the same time, pleaded with the Chief Minister to take up at their cause with his own government in Delhi for which all political parties would extended total cooperation as the issue concerned was serious and above all political considerations.
