BJP Kisan Morcha members interrupts rail traffic at Railway Station Shergarh, Bathinda, on Friday.
Bathinda, February 7, 2014: BJP Kisan Morcha held `Rail Roko’ protest at Railway Station Shergarh, Bathinda with large number of farmers and party workers.
On the occasion, National Secretary Kisan Morcha and Prabhari Himachal Pradesh Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal claimed that today at hundreds of places in India lakhs of farmers are sitting on railway tracks. He said that it is a message to the Congress-led UPA Government which does not take any positive step on the demands of the farmers.
Grewal said the farmers of the country are facing drought like condition created by the policies of government. He added when the crops are destroyed, it is the death of the farmer not the crops. He said that 1,45,000 farmers were forced to commit suicides during the UPA rule. He alleged that the Government is directly responsible for these suicides. He said that the outdated policies and non -implementation of the proposed polices are behind these deaths. Grewal said that the benefit of UPA government’s loan waiver scheme went to banks and not to farmers. He said that the banks are now sending notices of attachment to farmers. The farmers of Yamuna Nagar in Haryana have even offered to give their kidney against payment of loans.
Grewal said that BJP Kisan Morcha will raise issue of implementation of Swaminathan Commission regarding remunerative prices with 50% profit for the farmers. //punjab news live, bathinda news, punjab news online, punjab news, punjab news headlines, punjab breaking news, india news, punjab news, world news,