From tractor to fodder machine, candidates go all-out to woo farmers

The candidates of the BJP and the Congress are leaving no stone unturned to strike a chord with electors to gain their support in the Assembly elections on October 5.

Deepak Niwas Hooda, BJP candidate from Meham and former skipper of the Indian kabaddi team, tried his hand at a fodder-cutting machine at Farmana village when he reached there to seek votes. He said he, too, belonged to a family of farmers.

“I am connected with soil and know how hard farmers work to earn their livelihood. Hence, I could not stop myself from cutting fodder,” he told ‘The Tribune’.

This time, the BJP made Deepak its candidate from Meham in place of Shamsher Singh Kharkara, party candidate during the previous two Assembly elections. After quitting the party, Shamsher has fielded his wife Radha Ahlawat as an Independent candidate.

Meanwhile, Congress candidate from Rewari and outgoing MLA Chiranjeev Rao drove a tractor at various villages in the district. He also flagged the plight of farmers while addressing poll meetings at Fidedi, Budana, Gokulpur and Jaanti villages of his constituency.

“The BJP government has pushed the farmers on the path of devastation by making false promise of doubling their income. The input cost has increased in the past decade, but the farmers’ income is going down. They were compelled to visit government offices to get compensation for their crop losses, but the BJP government was unmoved,” he said.