NEW DELHI: In a major outreach to farmers, the BJP has made plans to ensure the participation of more than a million people in thousands of places across the country on Friday when the Prime Minister Narendra modi transfer 18,000 rupees crore to nine crore farmers and interact with a section of them.
BJP leaders, from Union your parliamentary ministers, the MLAs, all elected representatives as well as members of the organization, will travel across the country to attend the program and speak to farmers as well.
The exercise comes at a time when some farmers’ unions have been agitating for weeks on the Delhi borders against the three recently enacted farm laws and seeking to have the laws repealed, a demand rejected by the government that described them as beneficial to the farmers.
It coincides with the anniversary of the birth of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which the BJP observes each year as “good governance day” since he came to power at the Center in 2014.
Secretary General of BJP Arun singh He told reporters that the party has arranged for farmers to participate in more than 19,000 locations across the country, and party members will also be present.
In Uttar Pradesh alone, more than 3,000 places have been chosen, he said.
While one crore farmers will participate directly, more than five crore of them will listen to Prime Minister Modi’s speech, he said, saying the party will view the exercise as a festival.
Minister of interior Amit shah He will attend the program at Mehrauli in the national capital, while Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will be at Sector 15 in Dwarka here.
Despite protests in some places, the country’s farmers have supported Prime Minister Modi, Singh said, citing a number of government schemes to benefit them.
The government’s acquisition of tur dal increased 74 times during the first five years of the Modi government compared to 2009-2014 during the UPA government, he said.
Singh added that the Modi government spent eight lakh crore rupees on the purchase of rice and wheat in its first five years compared to just 3.74 lakh crore rupees during the 2009-14 UPA period.
The Modi government had launched a plan last year to transfer Rs 6,000 per year to each farmer in three installments.
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