The Congress party has alleged that the acceptance of Agriculture Minister Gaurishankar Bisen during the meeting of seven States proves that the State is getting prestigious ‘Krishi Karman Awards’ by forged means and demanded the State Government to release white paper over purchase of various grains during past 13 years.

Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee chief spokesman KK Mishra in a statement here on Saturday said, “The Agriculture Minister of State Gaurishankar Bisen during the meeting of Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) of seven States accepted that ‘90 per cent wheat is being recycled from the fair price shops and 50 per cent of that is not even edible,’ makes it clear that the five Krishi Karman Awards received by State are on the basis of wheat purchased in this way and not on the basis of bumper wheat production of the State.”

Mishra also said that while Bisen was exposing this historic fact he was interrupted twice by Principal Secretary – Agriculture Rajesh Rajora. Mishra asked for investigation over this act of the PS Rajora.

“How can a bureaucrat dare to stop a senior Minister, who also happens to be former Parliamentarian, during his addressIJ This also exposes how the democratically elected Government of the State is being dominated by the bureaucracy,” he added.

He said that the Congress party has also raised doubt over the State getting prestigious agriculture award especially when the farmers of the State are suffering with natural calamities from past many years as the crops are ruined and the farmers are not able to pay loans and in the result are doing suicides.

He further went on saying that the farmers of the State are not getting compensation on time whereas the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan who proclaims to be a farmer’s son talks of providing crop insurance amount to them, in these conditions where how and on which agriculture land bumper production is taking place.