Congress doing politics on farmers' protest: Badoli

Claiming that farmers are not being stopped from entering New Delhi, state BJP president Mohan Lal Badoli today accused the Congress of doing politics in the name of the farmers.

“The Congress is in the habit of taking political mileage out of the farmers’ agitation. The plight of farmers during the 10-year rule of former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was before everyone to see,” Badoli said here.

Didn't do anything in Hooda rule

The Congress is in the habit of taking political mileage out of the farmers’ agitation. The plight of farmers during the 10-year rule of former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was before everyone to see.

Mohan Lal Badoli, state BJP president

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Badoli insisted that the BJP Government in Haryana was not stopping farmers’ march to New Delhi. “The farmers should follow a proper process to reach New Delhi….There is ban on plying of tractor-trailers in the National Capital,” he asserted.

Terming farmers’ demands as ‘genuine’, the BJP chief said in the wake of the BJP double-engine government taking several pro-farmer initiatives, the farmers from Haryana were not part of the current farmers’ agitation. “Haryana is the only state giving MSP on 24 crops, the BJP chief claimed.

Badoli stated the saffron party was well on its way to enrolling 50 lakh members as over 30 lakh members had already been enrolled in the ongoing statewide membership drive. The first phase of the membership drive concluded on December 5 while the drive to enroll active BJP member would conclude on December 10. The district headquarters would release the first list of the active members on December 17, he said.

With a view to empower women, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would launch the “Bima Sakhi” yojana at Panipat tomorrow. “This is the second time that Modi has chosen Panipat to unveil pro-women initiative as the BJP government’s flaghip nationwide “BetiBachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign was launched from the textile city in 2015,” he said.