Raising several demands, including a white paper on paddy procurement, a delegation of Chhattisgarh BJP called on Governor Anusuiya Uikey and submitted a memorandum on Thursday at Raj Bhawan
The delegation demanded of the state government a white paper on paddy procurement.
The state government promised to procure each grain of farmers and hence, the BJP demanded that procurement duration be extended by 15 days and token be provided to all farmers.
The delegation also demanded that those farmers who sustained injuries during cane charge by police should be extended free medical treatment and adequate compensation be given to them.
The BJP delegation further stated that all cases filed against the farmers should be withdrawn and a probe committee be constituted to fix responsibility and to bring to book those responsible for cane charging.
The other demands include providing two years of balance bonus to the farmers and no dues be issued so that they can avail loans in future. The paddy procurement target be raised to one crore metric tons of paddy and the cropping area forcefully left out be added again, the delegation demanded.
The BJP in memorandum claimed that during its rule in the state for 15 years, the procurement had been done smoothly and the amount was being transferred directly into farmer’s account. The BJP government had procured up to 80 lakh MT of paddy without any chaos, it claimed. Even zero percent interest loans were being extended by the then government, it further claimed.
BJP alleged that Congress has failed to keep all the promises it had made before coming to power and created hurdles in procurement of paddy from the farmers at minimum support price.