Ranchi: The leaders, both functionaries and office bearers of their Jharkhand unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday sat dharnas in farms throughout the nation to protest against the state administration’s alleged delay in disbursing the obligations of paddy procured by the farmers throughout the minimum support price (MSP) scheme.
BJP’s state president Deepak Prakash, who’s also a Rajya Sabha MP in the country, directed the statewide from Sukurhuttu village at Kanke block to the outskirts of this country capital.
Former chief minister Babulal Marandi, former education minister Neera Yadav, former sports minister Amar Kumar Bauri, sitting MLAs Navin Jaiswal, Raj Sinha, Kishun Kumar Das and many others sat in dharnas in their various meeting constituencies.
“The Hemant Soren government has been doing injustice to the farmers of this country by withholding his or her obligations.
The farmers created record paddy annually but the authorities refused to buy it asserting that their paddy was sterile.
The farmers have been forced to market their return on middlemen,” Prakash said, demanding the outstanding dues of the farmers have been rid simultaneously.
BJP’s claims were rubbished by Congress, whose ministry Badal Patralekh now retains the agriculture portfolio.
“BJP’s dharna was a gimmick.
In FY 2020-21, the country bought 62.41 lakh tonne paddy from farmers, and it can be a listing.
Additionally Rs 568.50 crore has been disbursed to the farmers while Rs 375 crore is yet to be published.
For the rest disbursements, the government has initiated the procedure for accepting a loan at Rs 290 crore,” Jharkhand Congress spokesperson Alok Dubey stated.
Congress stated Jharkhand government has off loans 2.62 lakh farmers up to now, that has been sworn in their 2019 meeting election manifesto.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha also came out all guns blazing from the BJP.
“It’s such an irony which on a single hand BJP is blowing off the motion of farmers against the brand new laws for more than nine months and committing solidarity to farmers of Jharkhand by putting on a dharna inside their own farms,” JMM overall secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya stated.
“At FY 2018-19, the BJP government had just bought 53 percent of those 40 lakh tonne paddy it had concentrated.
There was anarchy in the machine that was set up from the erstwhile Raghubar Das authorities.
Saryu Rai, a minister in the cabinet, had chased how tonnes of paddy were thrown at the open since farmers didn’t receive their cash,” Bhattacharya said.