All India Congress Committee in-charge communication and Haryana MlA, Randeep Singh Surjewala on Thursday demanded that BJP Governments at the Centre and Haryana State should fulfill their poll promises of implementation of ‘cost and 50 percent’ rates for farm produce and waive off the loans for the farmers.

Surjewala while addressing a farmers’ protest at Sohna in district Gurugram said that the BJP Government had waived a huge amount of loans taken by few industrialists, but it was not bothered about the crores of distressed farmers, who have not got the promised rates for their farm produces.

The Congress will waive off the farm loans on forming the State Government in Haryana, he assured.

The Congress leader said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission and ensuring at least 50 percent profit on the average cost of agricultural production while fixing minimum support prices (MSP) for crops.

The same promise was declared by BJP in its election manifesto but after winning the elections, BJP Government has forgotten its poll promises and has left the farmers in the lurch, he said.

Attacking the BJP Government for Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur firing incident, he said the ‘killing’ of farmers had exposed the “real anti farmer face” of the BJP. Majority of small and marginal farmers are under severe debt and feel compelled to commit, take their lives due to wrong policies of the BJP Government, he added.

Condemning the lynching incidents and the politics of hatred, Surjewala said that the people of India have always believed in respecting all the religions.

The politics of dividing the people on basis of caste, creed and region needs to be defeated in national interest, he emphasised. later he submitted a memorandum to the district administration, demanding waiver of loans of farmers, implementation of the Swaminathan Commission report.