Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 21: Former Minister and chairman Panchayati Raj Cell BJP J&K UT and senior vice president, Jat Sabha J&K, Ch Sukhnandan Kumar has slammed Manjeet Singh ex MLA and president of J&K Jat Sabha for seeking rollback of farm laws.
Talking to reporters here, today he said it can be Singh’s personal views on the land laws but as far as Jat Sabha is concerned no such discussions have been held in the Sabha as he himself is a senior vice president of the Sabha.
Sukhnandan also attacked Congress and other Opposition parties for misleading the farmers’ community on new Farm Bills which have recently been passed by the Parliament.
He said that provision of MSP is still there and the opposition parties are befooling the innocent farmers on this pretext. He said when Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has given repeated assurances that MSP will not be withdrawn, then why such hue and cry. “The PM is real well wisher of the farming community we have ever seen in last 70 years”, he added.
He also asserted that as per the new Act, contract agreement will be for the crops and not for the land and alleged that farmers are being misled by vested elements. Not only this, the new Act also provides the provisions for farmers to withdraw from the contract at any time without any penalty.
He asked the leaders like Manjeet Singh that why they have not tried to open the procurement Centers in J&K when he was Government. But procurement centers have been opened only due to the long struggle of the BJP MLAs who were elected for Assembly in 2008.
Ban on Basmati has also been lifted only when he himself raised the issue in Assembly that if there is no ban on Apple then why the ban on Basmati which is a major product of Jammu region.
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