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Congress demands crop insurance cover for farmers

Addressing a public rally in New Delhi on Sunday, the Punjab Congress chief Pratap Singh Bajwa assured the farmers that the Congress would continue to espouse their cause forcefully as leaders like Parkash Singh Badal had only been cheating them by projecting themselves as their champions. -

September 21, 2015 The Congress on Sunday demanded crop insurance cover for farmers who should be covered for the loss of their produce under any natural calamity or manual foul play.

Addressing a public rally in New Delhi on Sunday, the Punjab Congress chief Pratap Singh Bajwa assured the farmers that the Congress would continue to espouse their cause forcefully as leaders like Parkash Singh Badal had only been cheating them by projecting themselves as their champions.

"Badal lacked guts to forcefully take up farmers issues with his own government. We demand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Parkash Singh Badal should immediately give a package to the debt ridden farmers of Punjab as it was given by UPA government," Pratap Singh Bajwa said.

Bajwa told Mail Today that more than 25,000 farmers from Punjab participated in the Kisan Samman Rally held in Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi. Bajwa said this rally marked the solidarity of the farmers with the Congress as the party had successfully scuttled the atrocious attempt by the NDA government to drop pro-farmer provisions in the land acquisition legislation that was enacted by Dr Manmohan Singh government in 2013.

Bajwa warned Parkash Singh Badal Chief Minister of Punjab of the serious consequences in case the Food Corporation of India was dismantled as that would directly hit the procurement operations. He lambasted the union government for having backtracked from the poll promise of implementing the Swaminathan Committee report for fixing prices of the farm produce by ensuring 50 per cent profits over and above the cost of production.

Bajwa said the Punjab farmers were up in arms against the Akali Dal-BJP government headed by Parkash Singh Badal that had failed on every front. He referred to the pitiable plight of the farmers in the cotton belt whose crop had been destroyed by the white fly and the increasing incidence of suicides in the rural sector.

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