Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 10 (ANI): Biju Janata Dal on Thursday placed various demands before the Centre demanding for the development of the farmers and upliftment of their livelihood.

Mr. Nadda said the Yogi government paid ₹ 1.41 lakh crore to farmers. The dues of the previous government have also been paid, he said. Lucknow: BJP’s National President, Jagat Prakash Nadda slams the opposition at Uttar Pradesh, over his party making a record payment to sugarcane farmers, slams opposition. He said, “Jinnah is theirs and ‘ganna’ is ours”. The BJP leader made this statement more than a month after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav courted controversy when he mentioned Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in a speech, along with Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and Mahatma Gandhi.

New Delhi Sep 25 PTI The Congress on Saturday extended support to the Bharat Bandh call given by farmer unions against the Centres three agri laws and demanded that discussions be initiated with the protesters Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said the Congress party and all its workers will support the peaceful Bharat Bandh on September 27 called by farmer unions and farmers We demand that the due process of discussion with the farmers should be initiated because they are sitting on the borders of Delhi for last more than nine months We demand that these three black laws which were imposed without any consultation should be taken back he also said The Congress leader also demanded that the MSP should be given as a legal right to every farmer as they do not want only jumlas rhetoric and referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modis promise to double the farmers income by 2022 If we compare 2012-13 income of a farmer family with his income in 2018-19 the income due to farming in the total income of a farmer has reduced from 48 percent to 38 percent he claimed Vallabh cited the Situation Assessment Survey of the Government of India which states that a farmer on average is earning Rs 27 per day He claimed that the agriculture sector suffered a permanent dent in the last seven years He alleged that the Modi government first tried to usurp farmers land by bringing in the Land Acquisition Ordinance in 2014 and then in 2015 it filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court that if farmers produce is purchased on MSP as per the formula given by Swaminathan Commission the markets are going to be distorted He also alleged that in the name of agriculture insurance the government gave a major portion of the agriculture budget to insurance companies even as the cost of farming per hectare has gone up by Rs 25000 This is also the first government in the last 70 years that has imposed a tax on agriculture in the form of GST which has also been imposed on tractors pesticides seeds and farm equipment and the agriculture sector is being taxed indirectly he claimed The result is that the average debt of a farmer which was Rs 47000 in 2012-13 has increased to Rs 74121 in 2018-19 he alleged and said this is the reason the Congress is supporting the Bandh Vallabh said the farmers are demanding the withdrawal of three black laws which were imposed without following any democratic process or consultation They are only demanding that MSP should be given as a legal right to every farmer I am surprised that why Prime Minister Modi is opposing Chief Minister Modi When UPA-2 was in power Chief Minister Modi gave in writing that MSP should be given as a legal right now he is opposing his own words and his entire party is opposing his words he said The government and farmer unions have held 11 rounds of talks so far the last being on January 22 to break the deadlock and end the farmers protest Talks have not resumed following widespread violence during a tractor rally by protesting farmers on January 26 The three laws -- The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce Promotion and Facilitation Act 2020 The Farmers Empowerment and Protection Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020 and The Essential Commodities Amendment Act 2020 -- were passed by the Parliament in September last year Farmer groups have alleged that these laws will end the mandi and MSP procurement systems and leave the farmers at the mercy of big corporates even as the government has rejected these apprehensions as misplaced and asserted that these steps will help increase farmers income The Supreme Court had in January stayed the implementation of the three laws till further orders and appointed a panel to resolve the impasse PTI SKC RT RT