CHANDIGARH: Former chief minister Bhupinder Singh
Hooda
said on Saturday that he would hold
kisan panchayats
in all 22 districts of the state to raise farmers’ issues. He said that similar meetings would be held with traders, employees and others in days to come to take up their issues against the ruling
BJP government, which had “failed on all fronts”.
Earlier, he led a delegation of 12 Congress MLAs to submit a memorandum to governor Kaptan Singh Solanki pertaining to the “plight” of farmers of the state. They included former speakers Kuldeep Sharma, Raghubir Kadian and senior MLAs Karan Dalal, Anand Singh Dangi and Geeta Bhukkal. In the House of 90, at present the Congress has 17 MLAs.
Hooda said that on June 25, he would hold a kisan panchayat in
Rewari
, on June 30 in Sirsa, on July 1 in Sonipat, on July 6 at Nuh and on July 8 in Jind. “Likewise, we will hold such panchayats in all 22 districts later this year and also hold meetings with different strata of society to be their voice against the ruling government,” he maintained.
Elaborating upon the memorandum, Hooda said that the Congress demanded that the BJP fulfilled its poll promise of implementing the
Swaminathan commission report, waive farmers’ loans and fix
MSP
of sugarcane at Rs 400 per quintal.
The Congress also demanded that the BJP government should lower prices of petrol and diesel, give crop insurance cover with farmers consent, provide free power and water supply to BPL families and fulfil other demands of the farmers.
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