Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that the government should find a solution to the issue by talking to the agitating farmers. Hooda said the government should end the agitation by accepting the demands of the farmers. He said that when the Congress government is formed in the state, the responsibility of crop insurance will be handed over to government companies, and farmers will also be guaranteed MSP.
Hooda had reached Sonipat today to inaugurate the Girls Model School established by Tikaram Shikshan Sansthan where he was given a warm welcome. The former Chief Minister appreciated the work done by the organization in the field of education. Apart from this, Hooda also reached Barona village of Kharkhoda to unveil the statues of leader Subhash Chandra Bose, martyr poet Mehar Singh and his wife Prem Kaur. He paid homage to the three.
On this occasion, Hooda said that Barona, the birthplace of a great personality like Mehar Singh, is a historical village. “In a Panchayat held here in 1910-11, it was decided to open an educational institution to educate the area. The responsibility for this went to his grandfather Chaudhary Maturam ji. After this, the first educational institution was established in Rohtak under his chairmanship,” Hooda said.
Talking to journalists after the program, he said the BJP-JJP government is continuously playing with the interests of the farmers, and the government has become so addicted to frauds and scams, that it has not spared even the Annadata. “Scams like crop purchase, compensation, crop insurance and sometimes FPO are continuously happening with the farmers. Under the coalition government, farmers are neither getting MSP, nor compensation, nor timely delivery of fertiliser, seeds, insecticides, and water for irrigation,” he said.
Hooda said that once again the government has deprived 7 districts of Cluster-2 from crop insurance. “About 3 lakh farmers of Sonipat, Ambala, Karnal, Hisar, Jind, Mahendragarh and Gurugram districts of Cluster-2 are waiting for the government for insurance, because the government did not hand over the responsibility to any company in Cluster-2. Last time also there was no insurance company in Cluster-2 for Kharif crop, while the government had deducted the amount of insurance premium from the accounts of about 2 lakh farmers,” he said.