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Sukhbir Badal holds CM directly responsible for total chaos in mandis

Bathinda, Apr 22 (UNI) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday held chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh directly responsible for the total chaos in ‘mandis’ in the State saying farmers were forced to camp in miserable conditions at procurement centers due to the State’s inability to arrange gunny bags to store the incoming wheat crop.
The SAD President, who visited Goniana Mandi, Goniana Kalan, Maluka, Kotha Guru and Bhagta Bhaike mandis in Bathinda district and the Moga Mandi, requested the entire SAD rank and file to fan out in procurement centers to assist the farmers to get their crop procured. He simultaneously announced that the party would hold symbolic district level ‘dharnas’ across the State on April 24 in front of the offices of the Deputy Commissioner to submit a memorandum demanding the problems being faced by farmers in ‘mandis’ be resolved immediately.
Asking the chief minister to step out of his farm house and address the problems being faced by farmers, Mr Sukhbir Badal said the chief minister should also direct senior officers to visit all ‘mandis’ and removed shortcomings which were resulting in extremely slow procurement of wheat. “Farmers have told me that they are camping in ‘mandis’ for more than one week to await procurement of their produce. As much as 45 lakh metric tonnes of wheat is lying in the open in mandis and not being lifted due to lack of gunny bags. Food and Civil Supplies minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu has gone into hiding as he knows he cannot face the farmers after failing to issue timely tenders for gunny bags. Punjab was also pipped by Haryana in placing of orders for used gunny bags”.
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