Paddy procurement begins in Rajpura, Ghanaur mandis

Tribune News Service

Rajpura/Ghanaur, Oct 3

Rajpura MLA Hardial Singh Kambhoj and Ghanaur MLA Madan Lal Jalalpur today formally kickstarted the paddy procurement operations in the grain markets of Rajpura and Ghanaur.

MLA Kamboj and Jalalpur while kickstarting the government purchase of paddy said: “Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s efforts have paid off, so the farmers’ crop will now be taken care of on time.” Both the MLAs said that every single grain of the farmers would be procured bringing for sale in the mandis and the payment for the purchased crop would also be made at the same time.

Kamboj said the Central government had postponed the procurement of paddy till October 11 in a spirit of revenge to harass the farmers of Punjab. The Punjab Chief Minister immediately swung into action, approached Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to relook his government’s decision of delayed procurement in the larger interests of farmers and the agrarian state.

Jalalpur said the Modi Government wanted to derail the economy of farmers but with the intervention of the Chief Minister the procurement started on time.