Haryana Chief Minister on Thursday lashed out at the previous Congress Government for not implementing recommendations of the Swaminathan report during its ten-year tenure.
While addressing the party workers, during the first day of “Chai pe Charcha’ connect-to-people campaign on Thursday, Manohar lal also blamed the former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for misguiding the farmers on the issue Swaminathan report.
“By increasing the MSP of Kharif crops, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fulfilled the long pending demand of farmers. Since Independence, this is the first time that any government has made such a significant hike in the MSP,” he said.
The Chief Minister said the decision of the Prime Minister to increase the minimum support price (MSP) of all Kharif crops was appreciable and in the larger interest of the farming community of the country and the state.
Manohar lal had on Thursday morning launched his “Chai pe Charcha’ connect-to-people campaign and interacted with scores of party workers and people at different places in the state. He attended about a dozen programmes from Panchkula to Jind to get feedback about the functioning of his government which is about to complete four years in office.
He had kicked off his connect-to-people campaign from district Panchkula where he visited the residence of BJP General Secretary of the district, Surender Sharma, in village Naggal and Mandal Mahamantri of village Barwala, Amrik Singh .
While interacting with media persons on this occasion, the Chief Minister said under this programme, he would visit different villages of district Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Jind and interact with party workers. In all, he would cover a distance of about 200 kilometers on Thursday, Manohar lal said.
The Chief Minister will visit different districts during the next three days to meet party workers under the ‘Chai pe Charcha’ connect-to-people campaign.
Apart from “Chai pe Charcha”, he will also reach out to the people through his road-shows and public meetings.