Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda along with Congress leaders and party workers staged a dharna in the new grain market in Jind on Wednesday protesting against the alleged distress sale of paddy, cotton and bajra in the State.
Speaking on this occasion, Hooda alleged that the local farmers are not getting remunerative price of their produce due to which they even failed to recover the cost of their produce.
He said that the price of paddy is very low while rice is being sold at higher rates.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, before the general elections, had assured farmers that the Swaminathan Commission Report will be implemented and they will get remunerative price of their produce but after coming to power, the BJP Government has failed to fulfill its promises, alleged Hooda.
He also charged the Modi Government with favouring capitalists and ignoring poor people and labour class. Under the BJP rule in the state poor people, traders and labourers are struggling, added Hooda.
Senior Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surejewala, Anand Singh Dangi, Deepinder Singh Hooda, Jagbir Malik, Prof Virender Singh, former Haryana speaker Kuldeep Sharma were among others present on the occasion.
Meanwhile, the ruling BJP has slammed Hooda for staging a dharna at the grain market.
While describing as a political gimmick the protest by Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Haryana Food and Supplies Minister Karan Dev Kamboj said that the former Chief Minister is just trying to re-gain his lost political ground by misguiding the farmers of the State. Kamboj claimed that every grain of paddy in the state is being procured from the farmers at Minimum Support Price (MSP).
A total of 41,64,616 metric tonnes (MT) paddy has been procured throughout the state on MSP up to November 3.