Cong misleading farmers on agri ordinances : Chhina

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, July 9

BJP leader Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina on Friday lashed out at the state government for allegedly misleading the farmers on recent ordinances on agriculture passed by the Centre. He said the new changes would bring revolution in the farming sector.

Chhina said the Congress was leading the farmers astray in the garb of ordinances announced in the interest of farming. “We need to amend the age old laws which prohibit the farmers to market their produce in the open to the highest bidder,” he said, adding, “the MSP will remain intact but the Congress is resorting to falsehood that the MSP is being done away with.”

Chhina also recalled that it was under the UPA that similar amendments were proposed but failed to implement the Swaminathan Report. “The BJP not only implemented the Swaminathan report on agriculture but has brought forth the huge plan to reform the agriculture sector to help bring out the farming out from the crisis. The Congress must stop the false propaganda on the issue.”