Union minister of state for rural development, Pradeep Jain Aditya staged a dharna at GPO park and later handed over a memorandum to Governor Bl Joshi, demanding compensation for the farmers who suffered a huge loss to their crop in hail-storm particularly in Bundelkhand region.
According to spokesman of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC), Virendra Madan, the central minister Pradeep Jain Aditya tried to meet chief minister and appraised him of the loss suffered by the farmers in Bundelkhand. He claimed that Aditya wanted to request
chief minister to issue notification regarding National Agriculture Insurance Scheme, a Central sponsored plan to compensate farmers against loss their crop in natural calamities.
Madan said that as Akhilesh refused to give time and listen to the problems of the farmers, Aditya was forced to sit on dharna near Mahatma Gandhi’s statue at GPO Park on Monday refused to give time and listen to the problems of the farmers, Aditya was forced to sit on dharna and later to hand over a memorandum to Governor Bl Joshi, seeking him immediate intervention into the matter. Aditya was also accompanied by former state Congress president, Dr Rita Bahuguna Joshi.