Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has claimed that the BJP has always failed to give DAP to farmers at the time of sowing, urea at the time of irrigation and MSP at the time of harvesting. This is the reason why farmers have to protest again and again for their demands.
“The BJP government should consider the demands of the farmers who marched to Delhi. Congress has also repeatedly raised this demand before the government and it was also mentioned in the party's election manifesto,” the Congress leader said.
Hooda said the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Jannayak Janta Party (BJP-JJP) are defrauding not only the farmers but also the commission agents and workers of crores of rupees.
Hooda demanded that the government should give Rs 5 crore to gold medalists, Rs 3 crore to silver medal winners and Rs 2 crore to those who win bronze medals for the country.
Reacting to the Supreme Court directive to the Union government to conduct a survey of the land meant for the construction of the SYL canal in Punjab to know how much work has been done, the Congress leader said the case is stuck till date due to the negative attitude of the Khattar government in the state.
Hooda said the Meteorological Department had already given an alert for more rain this time, but despite this, the BJP-JJP government did not take any steps in time.
'Diseases spread in flood-affected areas, queues of patients in hospitals'
Haryana Congress on Friday submitted memorandum to HR Governor and demanded compensation at the rate of Rs 40,000 per acre for farmers and adequate compensate for the damage caused to houses, shops and businesses due to floods in the state.
Former CM Hooda said the waterlogging has become a massive problem and the government will have to work on a war footing to get the situation under control.
Conceding that rains this time around were more than normal, Hooda insisted that the Haryana government should have taken timely steps to prevent waterlogging.
