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Calling Annadata a terrorist is an insult to Lord Ram: Amit Vij
Expressed grief over the death of the farmer during the movement
Babushahi Bureau
Chandigarh, February 19, 2024: Punjab Pradesh Congress treasurer and former MLA Amit Vij said that giving the status of terrorists to farmers by the ruling party at the center is an insult to Lord Ram and such leaders are criminals of Lord Ram.
He said in the speech released here that the one who produces the food offered to God is the breadwinner.Vij said that if the government does not give minimum support prices to the farmers and their loans are not waived, then 70 percent of the farmers' land will come into the hands of big houses.
He appealed to the central government to stop the policy of crushing the farmers. He said that the first three black laws have shaken the entire country.
Farmers staged a dharna in Delhi for more than a year, in which more than 700 farmers had to sacrifice their lives. They called it a big conspiracy of the government.
He said that more than 70 percent of the farmers in the states are in debt and are forced to sell their lands to get rid of it.
He said that on the one hand, the government can waive the loans of big industrialists, while they sell their crops in the market by adding the cost of their machines, bank interest, and expenses, and then by adding farmers' crops to the minimum support price. why not. . maybe Bharat Ratna MS Swaminathan's report also says the same. Even when Prime Minister Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, he did not tire of advocating minimum support prices for farmers.
He said that the Congress had waived off Rs 2.2 lakh crore of farmers' loans during its 10-year tenure, while the current BJP government at the Center had waived off Rs 14.5 lakh crore of industrialists' loans if the government could provide benefits to the industrialists. So 14 lakh crores of farmers will be forgiven, why can't the loans be forgiven?
He said that the rates of urea, petrol, and diesel have increased by 70 to 80 percent since 2014.He said that according to the science and experiment report in 2021
According to NCRB data, more than 43000 farmers are engaged in agriculture. Sector, 11000 daily wage earners committed suicide in 2019. The data has since been withheld. According to NSO data now the credit of farmers has increased by 58%However, in the last 10 years, farm costs have increased by 80 percent and minimum support price by only 30 percent.
In 2015, the BJP government promised to double the income of farmers. In 2016 it was Rs. 8000 per month and in 2019 it was 10,000 per month, then NCRB. Stopped collecting suicide and income data.
Pointing to the central government's intentions, Vij said that from 6 meetings of the 27-member committee on minimum support price in July 2022 and 37 meetings of the sub-committee. Even afterward if there is still something left to discuss then everyone is. in trouble. He said that the figures of 17 lakh crore rupees being given by the central government for the minimum support price are wrong, and the farmers will have to bear the burden of only 2 to 2.5 lakh crore rupees for the minimum support price.
He said that the central government should bring an ordinance to implement the minimum support price for the farmers and also make a law so that the land of the farmers cannot be grabbed by force.
Vij expressed his deepest condolences to the family of a farmer from Gurdaspur, who died in the farmers' agitation recently.