Debt waiver poll gimmick: AAP
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today termed the Congress government’s decision to waive the debt of farm labourers and landless farmers to the tune of Rs 590 crore as a ploy to fool the people ahead of the Assembly elections.
AAP MLA and Kisan Wing state president Kultar Singh Sandhwan said Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh had promised to waive all debts of the Punjab farmers, farm labourers and landless farmers in the first meeting of the Cabinet during the 2017 Assembly elections, but it took him four and a half years to take the decision, which will benefit the Congressmen only. In a statement, Sandhwan said according to a survey, a farm labourer’s family in the state had a debt of Rs 77,000 per head, but as per the Congress government’s relief package, only a debt of Rs 20,000 per head would be waived and the sword of debt of about Rs 57,000 would still hang over the family.
Debt waiver poll gimmick: AAP
He further said the government had increased the market fee and Rural Development Fund from the mandis of the state by one per cent. “With this increase, the Captain government has collected Rs 700 crore from the Mandi Board in the name of debt waiver of farm labourers, but has waived only Rs 590 crore,” said Sandhwan, urging the Chief Minister to announce complete waiver and fuilfil his promise.
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