Fardibad/Jammu, October 06 (Scoop News) – BJP National President Nitin Gadkari while inaugurated 3-day National Executive meet,said that it is indeed unfortunate that due to wrong policies of the government, the economic condition of the farmers across the country is deteriorating with each passing day. High claims of bringing regulation in the field of agriculture but on ground the plight of the farmers is still miserable. He stressed that the governments at the centre and in the states should provide crops loan to the farmers upto 50000/- on 3% interest rate on the pattern of BJP-government in Karnataka. He further said that "if the farmer will progress, the country will progress".
3-day National Executive meet and Training session of BJP Kissan Morcha was held at Faridabad (Haryana) under the leadership of its National President Om Parkash Dhankar. It was attended by 150 delegates from all over the country. A 4-member delegation headed by Kissan Morcha State President Karan Singh and comprising of Capt. (Retd.) Kasturi Lal Sharma, S. Charanjit Singh Khalsa and Mohd. Maqbool War attend the meet and Training session.
Kissan Morcha National President Om Prakash Dhankar stressed that Kissan Morcha committees upto Mandal level should be completed at the earliest and each village should have a prabhari. He made it clear that every committee should convene its meeting with the participation of farmers every month in order to take stock of the problems being faced by the farming community and the means to resolve the same. In case government did not pay any attention, dharnas and agitations should be held to put pressure.
From J&K, State President Kissan Morcha Karan Singh presented the details of programms being under taken in the state at different levels during the last three months besides addressing the session. He said that the Kissan Morcha in J&K, Jammu province in particular, has been regularly interacting with the farmers and it is the result of such efforts that a large number of Kissans are now coming forward to embrace BJP. He expressed hope that the morcha will get further strengthened in the coming months as the farmers are feeling betrayed by the state government by its anti-farmer policies and the best option available to them now is the BJP, which, according to them have been Kissan friendly and working towards mitigation of their problems.
A number of BJP stalwarts including Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ram Lal, J.P. Nadda, Manohar Lal, Mahinder Pandey and Sat Pal Malik also addressed the different sessions of this meet during the three days.