“We have organized a strike to support the farmers who have been protesting for a few months. If the Centre’s direct benefit transfer program is implemented, it will destroy the farmers,” Union General Secretary Majdoor said in Punjab. .
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POSTED APR 10, 2021 AT 7:32 PM IST
On Saturday, Amritsar farmers and commissioners went on strike against the Centre’s direct benefit transfer program, saying if implemented it would destroy farmers.
“We have organized a strike to support the farmers who have been protesting for a few months. If the Centre’s direct benefit transfer program is implemented, it will destroy the farmers,” Union General Secretary Majdoor told ANI, in the Punjab.
State farmers’ markets looked deserted as commissionaires and farmers staged the protest, despite the state government announcing that commodity purchases had started.
Punjab’s Food and Supply Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu in Ludhiana said: “Commission officials have called off their strike over the direct transfer of benefits to farmers. The procurement process will now start in Rajpura mandi. accounts.”
Earlier this week, the Chief Minister of the Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh, flayed the central government for “encroaching on the rights of states in its attempt to dominate them,” while lambasting it for a unilateral decision to impose by force agricultural laws and direct benefit. Transfer (DBT) to the agricultural community of the State.
States have never faced such problems sooner, the chief minister said, blaming the government for trying “to destroy existing relationships and systems in the name of so-called reforms, which they were trying to achieve. to impose without giving the stakeholders confidence ”.
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