Cong wing collects farmers’ blood, will present it to PM
Tuesday, 21/06/2016
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Chandigarh : The Kisan and Khet Mazdoor Cell of the state Congress stated that it would hand over a bag containing blood of family members of suicide victims to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Chandigarh for the Yoga Day celebrations.
Inderjit Singh Zira, president of the Cell, said, “People of Punjab want to tell the PM that they need urgent solution to the agrarian crisis and not yoga. Farmers are committing suicides but the Centre is unmoved.”
To register their protest, a group of Congress leaders led by Zira will move towards the Punjab Raj Bhawan, where the PM would be staying, before moving to the Capitol Complex. Zira dared Modi to waive of farmers’ loan of Rs 75,000 crore and implement the suggestions of the Swaminathan report before landing in Chandigarh or else they would greet him with blood given by families of suicide victims.
“The BJP government is not serious about the Punjab agrarian crisis and instead is promoting the RSS agenda through yoga. Even, Arun Jaitley during his recent visit, failed to respond to the concern of the state,” he said.
Fatehgarh Sahib: The president of Farmers Association of Punjab Congress Committee, Inderjeet Singh Zira, in Fatehgarh Sahib today lashed out at the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre for its anti-farmer policies. Zira said the Manmohan Singh government had given loans to farmers on seven per cent interest, out of which three per cent interest was to be borne by the government. However, after the Modi-led government came to power, it stopped the scheme. Zira was speaking to the media after a meeting of the Congress Cell of farmers and labourers held under the leadership of local Congress MLA Kuljit Singh Nagra.