PANJIM: Alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi grabbed power by giving false promises of making farmers income double, Congress on Thursday said that it will give priority by bringing farming activities in profit by excluding farmers from the ambit of Goods and Services Tax (GST).
Addressing a press conference, National Coordinator AICC (Kisan cell) Shailesh Agrawal said, “Be it the promise of doubling income or providing insurance cover. BJP has failed in all aspects. They forced farmers to agitate over Minimum Support Price and left them in pain. No government will do such to farmers, on whom we are dependent. But this insensitive government has done it.”
“They promised farmers of insurance policies, which benefitted the insurance companies and not farmers. The BJP government didn’t heed to the problems of farmers, had they then, the farmers would have not agitated. Even during their agitation, they were lathi-charged. This is unacceptable,” he said.
He said that farmers are suffering due to inflation. “Even rate of fertilisers and other equipment have skyrocketed. Secondly GST has become headache for them,” Agrawal pointed out.
According to him, the government should have focused on farming activities and should have given all the facilities to them, so the area grows and the country benefits with it.
“We need to bring farming activities to profit, so the farmers are benefitted and even our people get the produce at an affordable price. We need to see the balance in it,” he said.
