Farmers have welcomed Crop loan repayment extension: Sat

JAMMU: Chairing a meeting of farmers and office bearers of BJP Kissan Morcha's newly appointed team at Ward 32 of Jammu West, Former State President BJP Sat Sharma (CA) along with District President Munish Khajuria and Corporator Sat Pal Karlupia highlighted the pro farmer policies and recent decisions  for the welfare of farmers by Narendra Modi led Central Government keeping in view the situation impacting farmers during COVID-19 outbreak.

District General Secretaries Advocate Rajesh Gupta and Advocate Karan Sharma, Mandal Presidents Keshav Chopra and Raveesh Mengi were also present. The meeting was organized under the leadership of District President Kissan Morcha Rampaul Saini.

Speaking on the occassion, Sat Sharma said that farmers across country and especially J&K are happy and welcomed the recent decisions of Modi Government to fix the MSP (Market Selling Price) of Kharif Crops. He said the Government has kept its promise of fixing the MSP at a level of atleast 1.5times of the cost of production. He also stated that the decision of crop loan repayment by extending it to 31 August with rebate and interest subvention will hugely benefit our farmers across the country. He stated that Agriculture still constitutes a major part in building the economic structure of the country and one of the visions of our Prime Minister is to strengthen our farmer brothers across country, he added. He also blamed Congress and their alliance partners  for deteriorating the condition of farmers during their tenure.

Munish and Karlupia highlighted various schemes of Central Government for the welfare of farmers and stated that farmers are happy in the environment which has been built by the Prime Minster for them.

Sunita Koul, Rajesh Saini, Vikas Singh Lovely, Rahul Mehra, Ravinder Khajuria, Sandeep Singh, Ganesh Sharma, Kuldeep Saini, pawan Choudhary, Sartaj Saini, Darshan Choudhary and others were present.