File contempt proceedings against Punjab on SYL: Bhupinder Hooda

A former CM, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, today said that the government should stop playing the game of meetings, and file contempt proceedings against the Punjab Government in the SYL case, as the Supreme Court had already decided in favour of Haryana.

Reacting to the meeting of the Punjab-Haryana governments, he said it was now the responsibility of the Centre to get Haryana its due share of water.

“The court had handed over the responsibility of getting Haryana's share of water to the Central government. There is a BJP government both in Haryana and at the Centre. In such a situation, Haryana should have got its share by now, but this could not happen due to the anti-Haryana attitude of the BJP," he claimed.

Addressing a press conference at his residence, Hooda said the farmers of Haryana were continuously getting buried under debt. “Today, every farmer in the state has a debt of Rs 1,82,922. Whereas the average debt of a farmer in the country is Rs 74,000. Haryana is at number four in the country in terms of debt-ridden farmers, because the rates of fuel, fertilisers, seeds and medicines have increased during the BJP government, but the rate of farmers' crops has not increased. As soon as it came to power, the BJP refused to implement the Swaminathan report, going back on its election promise,” he alleged.

Talking about the PM crop insurance scheme with figures, he said the scheme had made the farmers poor, and the insurance companies rich. This disclosure was made in the answer to a question raised by MP Deepender Hooda in Parliament.