JALANDHAR: Reminding chief minister Bhagwant Mann about the promised guarantees to the people, the Mahila Kisan Union president Rajwinder Kaur Raju has demanded that Aam Admi Party led Punjab government must fulfil the guarantees given during the assembly elections to put an end the rampant suicides of farmers in the state.
In addition to this, the Union has also demanded from the state government to immediately announce compensation of Rs 500 per quintal for the farmers on the basis of the surveys conducted by the Punjab as well as Food Corporation of India on the shrinkage of wheat grains as well as yield due to scorching heat.
Reminding the CM about earlier commitments by him and his party, she said, "From the year 2016 to January 2022 and during "Kisan se Kejriwal ka Samvad" program organized in Ludhiana on 29 October 2021, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and you had given a guarantee to the farmers that they would ensure that after formation of the AAP government, no farmer would commit suicide from April 1, 2022. Besides this, grand guarantees had been given in writing to the farmers in the party manifesto during the assembly elections of 2022, but the newly elected legislatures, who made big promises for winning their elections as a common man, have now forgotten the plight of the farmers as they were tipsified with power and that’s why the people of Punjab have become disappointed with this government in a very short span."
Contending further on farmer suicides, the woman farmer leader also reminded Bhagwant Mann that he, being party president and MP, was cursing the then governments when he visited the homes of farmers who committed suicides to express his sympathies with their families. But now after the formation of his government, why was he silent on the daily suicides committed by farmers? "Since April 1, more than a dozen farmers had committed suicides, out of which seven farmers have committed suicide due to economic loss of low wheat yield," she said.
