“Who is Anti-Farmer? Punjab Or Haryana”: ML Khattar Asks Amarinder Singh
Manohar Lal Khattar had previous blamed the Punjab executive of using the farmers’ protest.
Chandigarh:
The Leader Ministers of Punjab and Haryana are locked in a struggle of phrases over which state is doing higher at the agriculture entrance. Amarinder Singh and Manohar Lal Khattar’s exchanges come within the again drop of a months-long protest towards 3 central farm rules and a few occasions from the previous few days.
Haryana’s Khattar lately posted a sequence of tweets record his state’s welfare schemes for farmers and requested the Punjab Leader Minister to come to a decision for himself who was once ‘pro-farmer’.
As an example, he posted: “Haryana procures 10 vegetation at MSP — paddy, wheat, mustard, bajra, gram, moong, maize, flooring nut, solar flower, cotton and makes the MSP cost immediately into the account of the farmer. What number of vegetation does Punjab purchase from the farmer at MSP?”
In a similar fashion, he mentioned, “Haryana will pay each and every farmer Rs 1,000 consistent with acre for stubble control and offers linkages on the market of paddy straw. What incentive does Punjab supply to the farmer?”
2.Haryana supplies an incentive of Rs 7000/- consistent with acre to each and every farmer who needs to transport clear of paddy cultivation. What’s the incentive that Punjab supplies to the farmer in a similar fashion?
— Manohar Lal (@mlkhattar) August 30, 2021
The Haryana Leader Minister’s tweet typhoon gave the impression to be based on Mr Singh’s jibe at him, taunting his party, the BJP, to withdraw the 3 debatable farm rules towards which hundreds of farmers were protesting, particularly alongside Delhi’s borders, since ultimate November.
“You repeal the farm rules and now not simply the farmers however even I can proportion laddoos with you,” Mr Singh mentioned lately.
He additionally slammed Mr Khattar for allegedly protecting the attack on protesting farmers. Mr Singh referred to a contemporary video that went viral on social media appearing a senior Haryana reputable giving particular directions to the police to thrash farmers.
All this was once in resolution to any other of Mr Khattar’s feedback — this one on farmer leaders noticed feeding the Punjab Leader Minister goodies after the latter, on August 24, introduced a better state advisory value for sugarcane.
Accusing the Punjab executive of using the farmers’ agitation towards the BJP-led Centre, he mentioned alleged that farmer leaders would possibly not offer goodies to Mr Singh.
“You’ll be able to depend folks sitting on Delhi’s borders. They’re most commonly from Punjab, now not from Haryana. Farmers of Haryana are glad,” Mr Khattar mentioned at a press convention previous lately.
