In Ladwa, Nitin Gadkari woos farmers with agricultural talk

KURUKSHETRA: Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari visited Ladwa assembly constituency of Kurukshetra district on Wednesday where he campaigned for BJP candidate Dr Pawan Kumar Saini. During his visit to Ladwa, Gadkari attempted to attract voters with the promise of boosting the agriculture sector, bringing water to Haryana and changing the fuel options from petrol and diesel to biofuel.
In his address to the public, Gadkari targeted Congress and talked about the development works of his government in the last five years. “Running a sugar mill is a difficult task. We are wheat, rice, and sugar surplus, therefore, the farmers are not getting the correct prices of their crops. The reason behind this is corrupt administration, wrong policies, and visionless leadership of the Congress in the last 70 years due to which the situation of distress has erupted in rural India and in the farmers. The policy of Congress party is responsible for this situation,” he said.
Promising to solve the water problem in Haryana and Punjab, Gadkari said, “We have approved two projects to control water in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir from where it is going towards Pakistan and the works are starting. I have approved Rs 2,500 crore for brick-lining of the Indira Gandhi canal and Rajasthan’s eight districts would be getting water from this project. There are six such projects in which the dispute related to water between Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan was solved by our government. Even the water of Yamuna can be controlled and sent to Rajasthan through Haryana. We have started the projects of linking different rivers to resolve the water crisis.”
Speaking further on the agrarian crisis, Gadkari said, “We are have surplus production in the agriculture sector. Due to high production and supply, prices of crops have gone down. We need to change our crop patterns and until that is done, our farmers will not get relief. Therefore, our government has decided that the farmers will not produce wheat and rice only but will also grow crops that are used for making fuel. Sugar mills are running in losses due to the absence of economic viability and many of them have been shut.”