Farmers at receiving end under BJP rule: Tony
Moving from post to pillar for seeds, fertilizer, irrigation facilities
KHOUR: Taranjit Singh Tony, senior AAP leader and ĺMember DDC Suchetgarh said that the farmers in J&K are at receiving end under the BJP government as they have to move from post to pillar to get quality seeds, fertilizer and irrigation water as those sitting at helm are busy in rhetoric without caring about plights of tillers and common masses.
The senior AAP functionary was addressing a Kissan rally as the chief guest here on Tuesday. The event was organized by Devender Singh District President KIssan Wing Rural along with Shanker Singh Chib, Provincial President Kissan Wing and Ashok Sharma District President Jammu Rural at Khour.
Senior AAP leaders Partap Jamwal, Sangathan Mantry Jammu Province APP, Subash Sharma, Jammu Province AAP, Dr Rajinder Thappa, Sangathan Mantry Doctors Wing, Tanvir Hussain, Provincial President Trade Union Jammu Province, Mandeep Choudhary, Rakesh Kundal, Bal Krishan Bhagat, Rajni Devi, senior leader AAP and Manohar Lal accompanied Tony in the rally.
After holding interaction with the local farmers who apprised him about acute shortage of fertilizer, Tony said that over 750 farmers sacrificed their lives for repealing draconian farm laws and to protect the rights and interest of the farming community, and therefore under no circumstances the farmers in the UT will compromise on any of the issues. He alleged that the paddy seeds distributed last time among farmers were of poor quality and therefore the people have been fed up with the incumbent regime’s apathetic attitude towards the masses.
The senior AAP leader said that the people are demanding early elections in the state to decimate BJP as they are fed up with the directionless policies of the party leadership which is performing experiments in J&K.
“Farmers sufferings have increased manifold. Farmers are not getting water, seeds and fertilizer in time. What is the Government doing for farmers? What has the Directorate of Agriculture done for farmers? Whenever a contact is established with Directorate of Agriculture, officers refuse to listen to farmers’ plight as they give alibi about remaining busy giving reason to farmers to think that if they are not concerned for them what kind of meetings they were conducting?”, he questioned, adding that there are 5 to 6 joint directors in the Directorate of Agriculture but none is seen doing any good to farming community rather they prefer to sit in offices doing nothing.
Tony said that the incumbent government has proved to be a big failure as on all fronts whether seeds, fertilizers, irrigation or scientific interventions, it has remained futile.
