Congress on Friday said PM Narendra Modi’s announcement over doubling farmers’ income has proved to be a “Jumla”.
“Today is January 2, 2022. Today Modi ji is in Meerut, the capital of farmers. Please tell, Did farmers’ income “double”?,” Congress Spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, in a tweet.
Congress retort came after the Prime Minister on Friday laid the foundation stone of Dhyan Chand Sports University in Meerut and said while addressing the gathering that through the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, lakh of farmers in UP have benefited from the scheme. “On 28 February 2016 in Bareilly, U.P, PM promised to double the income of farmers by the year 2022. This too has now proved to be a “Jumla”. PM should apologize to the farmers,” Surjewala said.
आज 2 जनवरी, 2022 है।
आज मोदी जी किसानों की राजधानी मेरठ में हैं।
ज़रूर बताएँ,
क्या किसानों की आय “दुगनी” हो गई?याद करें,
28 फरवरी 2016 को बरेली, यू.पी में साल 2022 तक किसानों की आय दुगनी करने का वादा किया था।ये भी अब “जुमला” साबित हुआ।
PM किसानों से माफ़ी माँगें।#Farmer— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) January 2, 2022
The prime minister on Saturday released over Rs 20,900 crore to more than 10.09 crore farmers across India as the 10th installment of financial aid under the PM-KISAN scheme. Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, a financial benefit of Rs 6,000 per year is provided to the eligible farmer families, payable in three equal installments of Rs 2,000.
The money is transferred directly to the bank account of the beneficiaries. During the virtual event, the Prime Minister also released an equity grant of more than Rs 14 crore to about 351 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs), benefiting 1.24 lakh farmers.
It is surmised that BJP lost elections due to the negative repercussions of ignoring farmers’ demands and thus, in a hasty scramble to make up for the missing links, the Center is trying to make amends.
Despite the repeal of three farm laws by the Government, farmer unions of Punjab have announced that they will protest against PM Narendra Modi during his visit to Ferozepur on January 5 and burn effigies of PM at all district headquarters on January 5.
The Kisan Mazdoor Sangrash Committee (KMSC), who held their state-level meeting Friday in Amritsar, have decided to protest near the venue of PM’s rally on January 5.
Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary of the KMSC, said, “No doubt farm laws have been repealed but we haven’t yet forgotten the death of nearly 750 farmers during this one-year struggle at the borders. PM is silent over MSP even now, hence BJP should stop daydreaming of coming into power. We can’t forget the hardships we faced while protesting at borders and how we were labeled separatists by BJP leaders.”
Meanwhile, BKU (Ugrahan) will be meeting Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi on January 3 over pending demands.
“If our pending issues get resolved, we will lift dharnas outside DC offices,” added Kokrikalan.