Coming down heavily on the Congress’ recent “ploy” to allure the farmers with their loan waiver scheme, the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday said that this will be another fraud by the Congress party with the innocent farmers of the State.
“Before misleading farmers for a new loan waiver scheme during his ‘Kisan Yatra’, Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh must go barefooted to the farmers of the State to apologise for denial of benefit of the much-proclaimed `70,000 crore loan waiver scheme announced by the Congress-led UPA Government in 2008 just before the Parliament elections of 2009…Not even one per cent of the Punjab farmers benefitted from the scheme,” said SAD secretary and spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema.
Cheema asked the State Congress chief that he owes an explanation to the farmers of the State that being the highest contributor to the national food pool, why were the Punjab farmers were treated so mercilessly by the Congress-led UPA Government.
Exposing the previous loan waiver scheme, Cheema said that the scheme which was announced to be `70,000 crore worth of value actually came down to `52,000 crore.