State Congress on Monday accused the BJP of falsely claiming to be a sympathizer of farmers. Congress government in the state crossed the previous record target of paddy procurement and fulfilled its promise of purchasing all paddies from registered state farmers, the ruling party said.
In a statement state general secretary and chairman communication wing of the Congress’s state unit Shailesh Nitin Trivedi said the BJP was shedding crocodile tears on paddy issue and was misleading the state populace.
Refuting the charges that Congress government was insensitive on the paddy procurement and that it failed to procure all the paddies from state farmers, Trivedi circulated a list of data of paddy procurement of previous years.
The Congress government had purchased 80.38 LMT paddy in 2018-19 at the rate of Rs 2500 per quintal and this year it crossed the previous year’s record a couple of days earlier, the Congress leader claimed.
He further said that the BJP had no right to comment on the issue as it had cheated the farmers on paddy bonus issue and had never fulfilled the promises it made in its 15 years regime, he alleged.