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 that a scheme like Agneepath cannot be implemented in India by citing the examples of countries like Israel or America.
Flaying the Punjab Assembly resolution seeking transfer of the Union Territory Chandigarh to it, former Haryana Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday said the Punjab government should avoid unilateral decisions, overlooking the rights of Haryana.
Hooda said that the government employees in the state are agitating on the streets demanding old pension, but the government is ignoring them, and the issue of old pension was also raised in the assembly.
He said confrontation is not good as farmers have every right to protest peacefully for their demands.
The 73-year-old Leader of Opposition and his wife got themselves admitted to Medanta in Gurugram.
