Ghaziabad: Rakesh Titected Farmer leader on Thursday alleged large-scale irregularities in the procurement of plants in Uttar Pradesh at the minimum support price (MSP) and demanded the CBI probe.
Tikait, a national spokesman for Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), claiming some plants including wheat have been purchased through an intermediary instead of farmers, whose identity has been forged in government records.
By quoting what he claimed was the examples suspected of irregularities in Rampur Regency, he claimed that factory owners, intermediaries, administrative officials and operators of the procurement center were beneficiaries of “scam”.
Speaking to the press at the Ghazipur border here, Tikait said he had evidence of alleged irregularities and demanded an investigation into his charges by the Investigation Bureau (CBI).
“According to the government’s record, only eight percent of farmers from all countries have benefited MSP.
Of these eight percent, the identity of 40 percent of farmers forged,” Tika’s claims.
“In fact, even eight percent of farmers in this country get MSP.
Farmers are being looted by the government in the country on behalf of MSP,” he said in a statement.
MSP has been officially announced for 23 plants but only given in two or three and it is also not even in all states, he said, adding, rice is sold at a lower price than the minimum interest rate of Bihar and Southern.
“In Uttar Pradesh, wheat and rice are obtained through the Nexus in an organized manner.
Claims for the procurement of plants from farmers in MSP are no more than gimmick.
Wheat has not been obtained from the farmers above,” Tikait was suspected.
He said in terms of procurement of wheat, a large country like going up in fourth place in the country, even behind Haryana and Punjab.
“The government is up, as part of the Jugglery of its statistics, now even ends the official figures of the targeted wheat procurement.
Bku demands the CBI probe into wheat trade in the Rabbi season 2021-22.
The CBI probe must end this Nexus organized above, he added.” BKU, the body of an influential farmer headquartered in Muzaffarnagar Western Up, is part of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the Umbrella Body of the Farmers Workers who protested the center in Delhi Borders since November 2020 for a controversial new agricultural law.
Protesters demand a complete rollback of three controversial laws that they claim to oppose farmers and seek new laws that guarantee MSP.
However, the center, which has held 11 rounds of formal talks with protesters, maintaining laws is pro-farmer.