MUMBAI: Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the next installment of funds for farmers under a central welfare scheme, the NCP accused him on Thursday of depositing money in farmers’ accounts when there are elections.
Speaking to reporters here, Maharashtra Minister and NCP spokesman Nawab Malik said that the BJP is not a party of farmers, but of those who loot agricultural products. ”
Against him, the BJP of Maharashtra said that the Modi government has taken various measures in the interest of farmers and claimed that it is the NCP that did not help the growers when it was in power.
The Prime Minister will launch the next installment of financial benefits under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) on Friday via videoconference.
With the push of a button, Modi will enable the transfer of more than Rs 18,000 crore to more than nine crore beneficiary farming families.
The prime minister will also interact with farmers from six states during the event, which comes in the context of ongoing protests by peasants outside Delhi against the three agricultural marketing laws recently enacted by the Modi government.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deposit Rs 6,000 in farmers’ accounts. Modi saheb has started this business of depositing money into (farmers’) accounts when there are elections and he detects problems, Malik claimed.
Nearly half a dozen states, including west bengal, Tamil nadu and Assam, are scheduled to go to the polls in the first half of 2021.
Malik said that only BJP workers will sit down to interact with the prime minister and accused the party of starting a campaign game.
The NCP leader claimed that the BJP has not been a party of farmers, but of those who loot agricultural products.
Maharashtra BJP chief spokesperson Keshav Upadhye responded to Malik and accused the Sharad Pawar-led party of failing to help farmers affected by the agrarian crisis when they were in power.
Upadhye alleged that farmer suicides were highest in the country when Pawar was the Union agriculture minister in the UPA government led by Manmohan Singh (2004-14).
He noted that the growth rate of agriculture had turned negative under the surveillance of the UPAs.
Modi hee has made various decisions in the interest of farmers over the past six years. They (the PNC when it was in power) did not help farmers when the agrarian crisis hit Maharashtra.
“Therefore, they will not be able to see the pro-farmer jobs that Modi ji has been doing,” Upadhye said.
He said the PNC should first do something in the interests of farmers before criticizing the prime minister.
The BJP organized protests for the farmers and solved their problems. the Center it has been making decisions in the interest of farmers, Upadhye added.
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