The monetary help supplied to farmers underneath the Centre’s PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi shall be elevated by ₹2,000 in Madhya Pradesh, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced on Tuesday, whereas his celebration colleague and defence minister Rajnath Singh took a jibe at Congress leaders, saying they’ve turn into “seasonal Hindu” for political achieve.
The 2 senior Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) leaders have been attending a ‘Kisan Kalyan Mahakumbh’ in Rajgarh. On the event, the chief minister made a slew of bulletins, together with waiving off ₹1,500 crore curiosity on farm loans of almost 800,000 farmers in Madhya Pradesh, which is able to go to meeting elections later this 12 months.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is already giving ₹6,000 to the farmers underneath the Kisan Samman Nidhi. We had earlier determined so as to add ₹4,000, which is being elevated to ₹6,000,” Chouhan mentioned. “Like beneficiaries underneath the ‘Ladli Behna’ scheme for ladies, farmers within the state, too, will now get ₹1,000 monthly.”
The chief minister additionally blamed the earlier Congress-led state authorities of accelerating the burden of farmers. Believing the “false guarantees” of former chief minister Kamal Nath, the farmers didn’t pay mortgage curiosity, he added.
“Kamal Nath didn’t fulfil the promise and farmers have been declared defaulter. The curiosity of farm mortgage elevated to ₹2,123 crore. We are actually attempting to cut back that burden of curiosity,” Chouhan mentioned. “Within the first section, the curiosity quantity of ₹1,500 crore of 8 lakh [800,000] farmers have been deposited by the federal government immediately [Tuesday].”
In the meantime, Rajnath Singh’s jibe on the Opposition celebration got here a day after Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra provided prayers to Narmada river in Jabalpur earlier than asserting 5 ballot guarantees of the Congress. Leaders and employees of the Opposition celebration embellished town with the mace of Lord Hanuman forward of Priyanka’s occasion.
“Some folks in Congress have turn into what I name ‘seasonal Hindu’. I need to ask them why they didn’t keep in mind Narmada ji earlier than. Why are you remembering Narmada ji now,” Singh mentioned. “Now they (Congress) are carrying Hanuman ji’s mace of their conferences and their occasions. Earlier they have been cautious of taking names of Ram and Hanuman.”
Singh additionally attacked the Congress over its ballot ensures, saying the celebration by no means fulfils its guarantees.
“To deceive the general public, the Congress is speaking about 5 ensures. When Kamal Nath ji’s authorities was there, many bulletins have been made, none of them have been fulfilled. Now Congress is speaking about ensures once more,” Singh mentioned.
The defence minister mentioned the BJP all the time fulfils its guarantees. “We promised that we are going to construct a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya and also you all can see a grand Ram Temple is being in-built Ayodhya and Ram Lalla shall be positioned there on January 22, 2024,” he added.
The Union minister additionally lauded chief minister Chouhan, saying, “Trying on the work finished by Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the arrogance displayed by the gang I can with certainty say that we are going to once more type the federal government with extra seats this time.”
In the meantime, former chief minister and state Congress chief Kamal Nath mentioned the announcement made by Chouhan was an election transfer.
“Each farmer household in Madhya Pradesh understands very nicely that probably the most anti-farmer celebration on this nation is the Bharatiya Janata Occasion and probably the most anti-farmer Chief Minister is Shivraj Singh Chouhan,” Nath tweeted in Hindi. “Sensing the defeat within the upcoming meeting polls, Shivraj ji is making new guarantees to the farmers, although he finished nothing apart from protesting the farmers in his 18 years of presidency.”