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| INDIA Alliance assures legal MSP guarantee, farm debt waiver if voted to power: Rattan Lal Gupta | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 11: The INDIA Alliance will provide a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) to every farmer on crops, along with a comprehensive farm debt waiver, if voted to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections.
This was stated by Rattan Lal Gupta, Provincial President, JKNC, Jammu, in a statement issued here today.
The senior NC leader has criticized the BJP led Government at the Centre for curbing the voice of farming community. He said that in 10 years, the Modi government has backtracked from its promises made to the food providers of the country. He claimed the BJP has backtracked, from their promises to double farmers' income by 2022 and legal status to Minimum Support Price (MSP).
The senior NC leader stated that PM Modi committed to double farmers income but the fact is that the farmer is not able to cover his production cost of the crop not to talk of profit or doubling of income. He anguished that more than 700 farmers lost their lives, yet despite this harrowing toll, the government remains unwilling to provide Minimum Support Price (MSP) to the farmers. He said that in absence of any visionary policy of the farmers these food producers continue to crave for seeds and fertilizers.
The senior NC leader stated that despite Govt's tall claims of having achieved tremendous success in every sector, the fact remains that there are no proper or even adequate Marketing Mandis or storage facilities for farmers' produce. The ultimate result of all these enumerated shortcomings is that farmers are not getting adequate prices for their produce despite their hard toil in the fields amid tough economic condition, he said, adding that this stark reality underscores the deep-seated injustices and neglect faced by the agricultural community, whose livelihoods are at stake under the present dispensation.
"The Modi government's decade-long tenure will be remembered as a period of relentless hardship inflicted upon farmers. The transformation of Delhi into a fortress to silence the voices of our food providers reflects the cruelty of the BJP government," he said.
The Provincial President asserted that now the time has come to raise the voice of the 62 crore farmers in the country. He maintained that the INDIA Alliance will provide legal guarantee of MSP to every farmer on crops and will waive off their farm debt, if the Alliance voted to power after general elections.
Rattan Lal Gupta appealed to the people of Jammu and Kashmir specially the farmers to strengthen the hands of Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah by supporting all three candidates of the National Conference from the Kashmir valley: Omar Abdullah from Baramulla Parliamentary Constituency; Aga Syed Rahullah from Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency, and Mian Altaf Ahmed from Anantnag - Rajouri Parliamentary Constituency in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls in Kashmir. |
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