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BJP and AAP have failed to address farmers’ issue: Partap Bajwa

Chandigarh, November 26, 2022 (Yes Punjab News)
Senior congress leader & Punjab’s leader of the opposition (LoP), Partap Singh Bajwa on saturday has slammed both the BJP led union as well as AAP led Punjab governments for their utter failure to address to the long pending demands of the farmers forcing them to continue on the course of agitation for many years.

Bajwa said it has been more than a year since Prime Minister Narendra Modi withdrew the three farm laws and promised to do something concrete and substantive to augment the lives of the farming community.

“ However till date the BJP led union government has virtually done nothing to give any respite to the farmers who are still in the agitating mode in various states all across the country. One of the major demands of the farmers was to make Minimum Support Price (MSP) of the various crops a legal binding for the respective governments so that they do not have to fight the distress sale in grain markets every year”, added Bajwa.

The sword of Electricity Bill 2020 which was now pending with the standing committee of the parliament was still hanging over the heads of the farmers. The Modi government had promised to withdraw the bill but it was presented again in the previous session of the parliament.

The BJP government after coming to power at the centre even promised to double the income of the farmers by 2022 which has not happened so far after a period of more than 8 years.

Even the AAP before coming to power in Punjab promised to alleviate the problems of the farmers but has failed to live up to its promises.

Bajwa said in fact the peasantry has to continuously suffer at the hands of the union as well as various state governments all across the country.

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