Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who is a member of Congress’ manifesto committee for 2019 Lok Sabha polls, met farmers from Haryana and Punjab on Tuesday here to seek their suggestions.
The meeting was held on the day when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the statue of Jat-farmer leader Sir Chhotu Ram in Hooda’s bastion Rohtak.
On the same day, Hooda’s detractor Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar also launched party’s Jan Sampark Abhiyan ahead of the Lok Sabha polls 2019.
After the meeting with farmers from the two states, Hooda, while talking to the mediapersons said that we have decided to seek suggestions from farmers of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab so that their problems could be addressed by the party.
In this regard, a meeting with the farmers of Punjab and Haryana was held here and they gave suggestions including complete loan waiver, buying of entire produce of farmers and fixing MSP as per recommendations of Swaminathan report, providing financial assistance and equipments to famers to resolve problem of stubble burning, removing GST on agri equipments and bringing petrol and diesel under GST, resolving the problem of stray animals, pension for farmers, free facility of power and water among others, said the two-time former Chief Minister.