PM Modi targets Sharad Pawar-There was an agriculture minister here, but...
While inaugurating several projects in Ahmednagar district of maharashtra on thursday (October 26), PrimeMinister narendra modi indirectly targeted former Union minister and ncp chief Sharad Pawar. Referring tothe issues related to farmers, PM Modi said, A senior leader of maharashtra has been the Agriculture Ministerin the central government for many years, although I personally respect him, but what has he done for thefarmers? During his tenure of seven years, he only, remember this figure, in seven years, he purchased only Rs3.5 lakh crore worth of grains at MSP from the farmers across the country, whereas our government boughtgrains worth only Rs 3.5 lakh crore at MSP in the same period of seven years. It has already given Rs 13.5 lakhcrore to the farmers.PM Modi said, Before 2014, only Rs 500-600 crore of pulses and oilseeds were purchased on MSP, whereasour government has given more than Rs 1 lakh fifteen thousand crore pulses and oilseeds to the bank accountsof farmers.then farmers had to depend on middlemen even for their moneyPM Modi said, When he (Sharad Pawar) was the Agriculture minister, farmers had to depend on middlemeneven for their money. Farmers were not paid for months. Our government has made arrangements to send MSPmoney directly to the farmer's bank account. PM Modi said, My family members, a large number of our farmerfriends will benefit greatly from today's program. We are also taking full care of the interests of sugarcanefarmers. The price of sugarcane has been increased to Rs 315 per quintal. Ethanol worth about Rs 70 thousandcrore has been purchased in the last 9 years. This money has also reached the sugarcane farmers. To ensuretimely payment to sugarcane farmers, assistance worth thousands of crores of rupees has been provided to sugarmills and cooperative societies... Let us tell you that when PM Modi was addressing the public meeting,Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde, deputy chief minister devendra fadnavis and deputy cm AjitPawar were also present on the stage.