Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday lambasted Punjab Congress for ‘befooling’ the farmers of the State in the name of ‘Karja Kurki Khatam’ program — its farmers’ outreach campaign.
“Congress Manifesto Committee chairperson Rajinder Kaur Bhathal and Manpreet Singh Badal, while addressing the media on Saturday, have exposed the plan of Congress by saying that Congress would not waive off complete debt but the only loan farmers taken from cooperative societies. The leaders said that it consists only 12 percent of total debt on farmers of Punjab,” said AAP’s State in-charge Sanjay Singh.
Singh, who was addressing press along with AAP’s State co-in-charge Jarnail Singh, manifesto committee member Chander Suta Dogra and vice president Boota Singh Ashant, compared the Congress tactic with that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “fake promise” of getting black money from Swiss bank and providing `15 lakh each to every Indian.
Neither Manmohan Singh led Congress nor Modi led BJP Government has implemented recommendations of Swaminathan Commission report to save the farmers of country, he said.
Jarnail Singh said that as per the official record, farmers of State have to pay total debt of `80,000 crores to different lenders. “The promise of waiving off `10,407 crores of Cooperative societies is just 12 percent of total debt on the farmers of State,” he said.
Dogra said that Congress has no road map to waive off debt of farmers but AAP has already announced its plan while releasing Farmers and labor manifesto in which we have promised to waive off complete debt of farmers till December 2018.