Odisha Govt Insensitive To Plight Of Farmers: BJP | OTV News
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Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday lashed out on the Odisha authorities whereas accusing the ruling-BJD of being insensitive to the issues of farmers regarding the paddy procurement within the State.
Addressing a presser, State BJP common secretary Lekhashree Samantsinghar stated farmers are dealing with quite a lot of issues throughout the paddy procurement and regardless that they’re staging protests throughout the State, Odisha authorities is silent and never apprehensive about them.
She additional stated that the get together employees and farmers from 35 Assembly seats and two Parliamentary constituencies of Boudh district will stage a protest and gherao the RDC workplace in Sambalpur tomorrow (January 21).
Around 40,000 BJP employees and farmers together with the State BJP chief Samir Mohanty and 5 BJP MPs from western Odisha will participate within the protest, stated Samantsinghar.
Meanwhile, BJD spokesperson Pratap Deb stated that the Odisha authorities has already procured 25 per cent of extra paddy as in comparison with what it had procured final yr by this time.
“At a time when the procurement is more as against last year, claims of lacuna in the procurement process is totally wrong and based on fake evidence. Instead of gheraoing the RDC office claiming that farmers are facing problems, the BJP should first address to the country-wide protest over the farm laws,” stated Deb.
The BJP’s protest is politically motivated and an try and divert individuals’s consideration from the true points, he stated, including that the saffron get together ought to first make Odisha farmers conscious of the benefits and downsides of the brand new farm legal guidelines.
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