Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Friday said that all crops of farmers in Haryana are being procured at Minimum Support Price and the Punjab government should also come forward and announce that the produce of farmers in the AAP-ruled state will be purchased at MSP.
Talking to reporters after inaugurating handicraft exhibition, Saini said the works done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the past ten years for farmer’s benefit are "historic".
He was asked a question about Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is sitting on fast-unto-death, and has also written an open letter to Prime Minister Modi in which he said that MSP to every farmer is like the fundamental right to live.
Saini said the AAP dispensation in Punjab and the states where Congress is in power should also take a decision to empower the farmers. "Punjab government should also take a decision to procure crops of farmers at MSP. They should not have a problem with this. When farmers of Punjab are facing problems, the Punjab government should come forward and announce that they will procure all crops of farmers at MSP," Saini said.
"In Haryana, we are procuring all crops of farmers at MSP and the state government is taking every such step which empowers farmers," he said. The Congress and other outfits which are part of the opposition's INDIA bloc do politics on everything, he charged.
Dallewal has been on a fast-unto-death at the Khanauri border between Punjab and Haryana since November 26 to press the Centre to accept the agitating farmers' demands, including a legal guarantee of MSP on crops.
Saini also trained his guns at the Congress, saying it has been rejected by people of the country. The Congress "speaks lies" and people have realised this and they have been rejected in Maharashtra also, he said, referring to results of the assembly polls held recently.
Welcomes Centre's move to implement its key plank of ‘one nation, one election’
Saini also welcomed the Centre's move to implement its key plank of ‘one nation, one election’, as the Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the constitutional amendment bill to roll out the concept of simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly polls. "We used to be stuck in one election after the other. Sometimes, it is panchayat polls, sometimes municipal polls, Vidhan Sabha or the Lok Sabha polls. It not only involves a lot of expenditure in holding elections, but there is involvement of time too. We were not able to undertake development at the pace at which we want as the Model Code of Conduct comes into effect and development works get impacted," he said. "I congratulate the prime minister and his entire team for the approval they have given to the One Nation One Election (initiative). The common people will get the benefit of this," he said.
