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The former punjab chief ministge calls Nijjer’s murder result of rivalry within Gurdwara factions in Surrey.
The former punjab chief ministge calls Nijjer’s murder result of rivalry within Gurdwara factions in Surrey.
Besides ensuring a cozy stay to gangster in a Punjab jail, the former CM helped him secure prime land in Ropar, the Punjab chief minister claimed.
With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Captain Amarinder Singh ridiculing Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s statement that his government…
Calling the decistion farmer-friendly, both leaders expressed gratitude to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for increasing the Minimum Support Prices for all mandated Kharif crops for marketing season 2023-24.
The former Punjab chief minister called the Rs 15,000 per acre compensation announced by the government was too less as the losses to farmers demanded that the compensation must be at least Rs 30,000 per acre.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of a continuing suspense over Gandhi's future role in the party and a spate of resignations by Congress leaders.
The Chief Minister, in his speech circulated at the NITI Aayog Governing Council meeting which he could not attend owing to indisposition, also called upon the Prime Minister to provide a one-time debt waiver to mitigate the distress of indebted farmers.
Divulging more, the minister said that the arrangements of boarding, lodging as well as transportation would be made by the Punjab government.
On the directives of the CM, the state agriculture department has come out with a detailed proposal for the hike in the MSP of wheat from Rs 1840 per quintal in 2018-19 to Rs 2710 in 2019-20 and barley from Rs 1440 to Rs 1974 per quintal.
The CM has sought reports from deputy commissioners (DCs) on all such existing open borewells, with a direction to take immediate corrective action to prevent the recurrence of such catastrophic incidents.
