Surjewala slams Rs 15 sugarcane price hike, warns of sugar mill closures and job losses in Haryana

Panchkula, Oct 30 (UNI) Senior Congress leader and MP Randeep Singh Surjewala, on Friday, accused Haryana's BJP government of making a "cruel joke" of sugarcane farmers by raising procurement prices by just Rs 15 per quintal, warning that inadequate returns could force growers to abandon cultivation, threaten sugar mills with closure and put thousands of jobs at risk. In a strongly worded post on social media platform X, Surjewala criticised Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini over the decision to increase the sugarcane price from Rs 415 to Rs 430 per quintal for the 2026-27 crushing season, alleging that the revision…