हिंदी
–INDUSTRY, TRADE, AGRICULTURE SUFFERING MAJOR SETBACK
–IN FESTIVE SEASON, MARKET GOES SLUMP, CONGRESS, AAP SCRIPT INFLATION
–THIS DIWALI TO BE LACKLUSTRE AFFAIR
Chandigarh, Nov 2
In order to woo votes of the farmers of Punjab the Congress, Aam Aadmi Party and Akali Dal have pushed Punjab into major economic crisis. The farmer organisations have been holding protest for the past 40 to 41 days thereby disrupting movement of railways and sounding death knell for agriculture, trade and business of the state.
Stating this in a press statement issued here today the senior leader Bharatiya Janata Party Punjab and its former State Secretary Vineet Joshi said that the farmers’ agitation will lead to a lacklustre Diwali for various sections of society. It has not only put jobs of several working class people into jeopardy but even the laborers are unable to get any work rendering them penniless and left to fend for themselves. With the goods trains off the tracks, various materials are reaching Punjab by trucks thereby increasing their rates and leading to inflation and hitting the medium income group and poor the most.
Joshi said that farmers themselves were facing a major crisis as with the onset of wheat sowing they need adequate supply of DAP and urea, which is unable to reach the state. 15 days of early sown wheat varieties have already passed without the usage of DAP. If the wheat crop is not sown in next 14 days then the yield per acre will reduce by 2 to 4 quintals this season. Besides wheat, the potato, onion and garlic production without DAP too will be hit.
He added that political parties playing dirty politics over farm bills will hence be responsible for lowered wheat production by lakhs of tonnes.
Joshi added that Punjab has also started facing shortage of cattle feed and poultry feed. Animal and poultry feed may become dearer as bajra, soybean, binola etc which are used to make feed, come to Punjab through the goods train.
Similarly, the woollen industry, auto parts, sports industry, tool industry etc are also facing major losses. This will also lower the earnings of Punjab through GST which would affect Punjab’s economy in every way.
So the Congress led Punjab government should realise that farmers agitation is costing heavy on state’s economy.
