Amarinder govt has failed to incentivise farmers, says Sukhbir

CHANDIGARH : Responding to the CM’s meeting with the Prime Minister seeking a compensation of ₹100 per quintal for state’s farmers for management of farm waste, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal has questioned the state’s efforts to curb the problem.

“Why has the government failed to incentivise farmers to prevent stubble burning. By this photo opportunity with the PM, the CM is trying to hide his government’s abysmal failure to give any compensation to the farmer as cost of managing paddy straw. The farmer is being fooled,” Sukhbir alleged.

Sukhbir said the chief minister should first give a report card of the utilisation of ₹385 crore received from the centre to manage paddy straw. “Isn’t it strange that Amarinder is asking the centre for more money to compensate farmers before disclosing that why has the state been unable to disburse a single paisa for the purpose?”

STOP TALKING NONSENSE: CM

Taking to twitter to rebuke Sukhbir, Amarinder asked him “to stop talking nonsense”. The CM wrote that he had been seeking ₹100 quintal bonus as stubble burning compensation for state farmers. “Evidently you don’t want that. But that won’t stop me from doing everything for the farmers (of Punjab),” said the CM on twitter.