Chandigarh: In a bid to influence farmers’ votes in Punjab elections, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the party’s Punjab President and Chief Ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann assured the farmers of the state for ‘Mission-2022’ that AAP government will never let Anndatas face inconvenience in the mandis.
Kejriwal said that farmers are the backbone of the country’s economy but it is so unfortunate that today they are facing dire financial crises. According to reports, the farmers of Punjab have a debt of about Rs. 1 lakh crore. Previous governments of Congress, SAD and BJP are directly responsible for it. He said that like the Badal government, the Congress government did not procure crops on time and payments were too delayed.
“AAP is forming a government with a record majority in 2022, and the agriculture sector will be given top priority and crop losses would be compensated like Delhi. In Delhi farmers who are facing crop damage loses are compensated with Rs. 20,000 per acre and they’re not harassed with delayed payments or inspection, ” he said.
Bhagwant Mann said that entire focus of the Congress-Captain and Badal-BJP was on looting Punjab and all the resources and resources of the Punjabis, no one thought of selflessly protecting the interests and lives of the farmers and farm labourers. Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is an example of it. The university was established to develop new seeds and research in the agriculture sector. PAU is in such a miserable condition at present that it is not able to save even its own crops from diseases and pests, because PAU does not have any fund for new research.
Mann said that every section and business of Punjab is directly connected with agriculture, so when agriculture will be a profitable business, then the economic growth of all other classes, shopkeepers, arhtiyas, traders and industrialists is bound to happen automatically.