Agriculture Acts will pave way to strengthen farming sector: DK Aruna

Mahbubnagar: Stressing that the new farm laws introduced by the Central government will completely reform the agricultural sector in India as they are aimed at strengthening the farming sector and empowering the poor farmers economically, BJP national vice-president DK Aruna assured the farmers that there is no need to worry with the new farm laws and urged them to support them.

Speaking to the media at party office here on Monday, DK Aruna asked the farmers not to fall prey to the false propaganda of the Opposition parties, who were misleading and misguiding them. Prime Minister Narandra Modi always looking forward to improving the conditions of farmers and doing all that was possible to make the farmers and the entire agriculture sector to become more profitable, she added.

She criticized that some Opposition leaders have joined hands with a few anti-farmer's associations and shedding crocodile tears and trying to mislead farmers. She asked the farmers not to believe them and support the Central government for a better farming future in India. She alleged that the ruling TRS also joined 'Bharat Bandh', only to oppose the BJP government unmindfully. The new farm laws will give freedom to farmers to sell their produce anywhere in the country wherever they get good profit, she observed.

Aruna questioned the TRS government why it was delaying paddy procurement? Why the government not compensated poor farmers, who lost their crops due to unseasonal rains?

She said in fact Congress had supported farm bills and even included them in its election manifesto, but now opposing the laws only because the BJP had introduced them. She challenged both the TRS and Congress to increase minimum support price of paddy to Rs 2,500 per quintal in the States, which they are ruling, if they really care for farmers.

She also questioned the TRS government why it hasn't paid the premium for the farmers under Pradhan Mantri Phasal Bheema Yojana. She also took against the TRS government for not filling up thousands of vacancies posts for the past six years and doing injustice to the educated youth in the State.

BJP treasurer Shanti Kumar, BJP district president Yerra Satyam, Former district president Padmaja Reddy, Buruju Rajender, Padaakula Balraju, Yeggani Narsihmulu, Srinivas Reddy, Anjaiah Yadava and others took part in the meet.