MSP as authorized provision will result in loss for Punjab farmers: BJP chief

A Punjab BJP chief, who’s a member of the panel tasked with reaching out to farmers tenting at Delhi borders, has stated that they need to not insist on minimal assist value for crops as authorized provision as within the longer run that will result in losses for the farmers from the state.
Harjeet Singh Grewal, 60, stated the farmers main the protest ought to take into account critically the executive assure being given for procurement of crops on MSP.
“Despite the fact that 23 states grow paddy and10 states produce wheat, government procures 60 per cent of the two grains (for central pool) from Punjab, 30 per cent from Haryana and the remaining 10 per cent from the national capital region (NCR). This is done because of the contribution of Punjab and Haryana in making the country food surplus and their role in Green Revolution,” stated Grewal.
The BJP chief stated that India produces 280 million tonnes of foodgrains (wheat and paddy), whereas it wants solely 78 million tonnes for the general public distribution system (PDS). Hence, if MSP turns into a part of a laws, then the procurement will happen equally from all of the states. Only 6 per cent of the full buy will occur from Punjab. The farm unions repeatedly demanding it (authorized sanctity for MSP) should maintain this in thoughts once they meet the federal government authorities,” stated Grewal whereas speaking to the The Indian Express.
The farmers have been protesting on the Delhi borders for 38 days now and have threatened to accentuate the stir if their two key calls for — the repeal of three new farm legal guidelines and a authorized assure for MSP — is just not met within the subsequent spherical of talks scheduled for January 4. At the tip of the sixth spherical of negotiations on Wednesday, the federal government had agreed to resolve protesting farmers’ considerations over rise in energy tariff and penalties for stubble burning.
Grewal, who had been tenting in Delhi since November 28 together with Surjit Kumar Jyani, the chairman of the 8-member BJP panel coordinating with farmers, claimed that wheat from Rajasthan is obtainable within the non-public market at Rs 2300 per quintal whereas MP wheat is being offered at Rs 3200 per quintal as in opposition to the MSP of Rs 1,925 per quintal. “If the quality is good, you will automatically get good rates. Punjab’s farmers need to understand this. They have the wrong propaganda that their lands will be snatched away. Not even an inch of land has been taken away from any farmer of the country. Diversification of crops should have happened 20 years ago. Punjab’s farmers now feel comfortable in growing only two crops and are also dependent on migrant labourers for same. These laws are meant to take the farmers out of the two-crop cycle and let them grow whatever the country needs,” he stated.
Following his repeated statements that amendments could be made within the three agri legal guidelines however they will’t be repealed, farmers had introduced to socially boycott him at his native village Dhanaula in Barnala. Members of the Grewal neighborhood from Ludhiana’s Jodhan village to have introduced to boycott him.
Grewal stated that he had contested 2017 Assembly polls from Rajpura constituency of Patiala. “I have been living in Rajpura for the past many years. I had not been to Dhanaula for more than 5 years. That village has my farmland where they (protesters) are saying that no one can take it on contract. It is a democratic country and no one can do this,” he stated.
Grewal stated that he had solely handed on the message to the farmers that he acquired from authorities. “Most of the doubts of farmers have been cleared…Home Minister had even told farm leaders to give in writing whatever changes they want in the three Acts. What else can a government c do? These laws are for the betterment of farmers. A solution should come out as the government is concerned about people sitting out there in the cold,” he added.
He claims that hardly any farmer from 102 villages in Rajpura was collaborating within the agitation. “Many farmers are doing vegetable farming in Rajpura. I know many families who grow vegetables on 1.5 acres of land, work hard throughout the year and produce five crops…”
Grewal stated he was and Jyani had been deputed in Delhi by state get together chief Ashwani Sharma as “we had been interacting with farmers for decades”. He stated he carried out a survey on farm suicides and submitted it to the top workplace and “I had indicated to the (party) head office about the rising farmers’ unions’ activities some four years ago. ”
Asked about some leaders labeling the protesting farmers as Naxals and Khalistanis, Grewal stated, “One cannot deny that many people with separatist thoughts have also become part of this protest, but one should not generalise it for everyone in the dharna. Majority (of those sitting on protests) is the common farmer who has been misled.”
Grewal stated that proposed amendments by the central authorities have resolved many of the points and “more amendments can be done, but communists just want to let the issue linger”.
Earlier, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh too disapproved of such remarks saying “such allegations should not be made by anyone” in opposition to any farmer.

Meanwhile, with an increasing number of farmers staging protests exterior the residences of BJP leaders, Grewal stated he shall be assembly Union Home Minister (Amit Shah) on this side. He stated the get together has already taken up the matter with Punjab Police as properly. “ It is a violation of human rights of a person if your are sitting outside his house 24×7 for more than three months now. Some people have threatened party leader from Bathinda, Makhan Jindal, asking him to resign from the BJP or protesters will stage a dharna outside his factory and will not let him run it,” he alleged.
Grewal had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election from Sangrur in 1995 and had misplaced. He had contested the Assembly election from Rajpura in 2017 and got here in a distant third.