Under this scheme, in the year 2018-19, instead of ₹88,000 crore, only ₹6,005 crore was deposited. If we multiply 14.64 crore (farmers) with ₹6000, the amount comes to ₹87,913 crore [per year],” he said. “Now today, the Prime Minister, by transferring ₹18,000 crore, is unsuccessfully trying to clean the stains of these three black laws,” he added. Today, the BJP is branding these farmer brothers as terrorists, parasites, tukde-tukde gang, misguided gang, khalistani and misguided lot. Mr. Surjewala said that instead of indulging in “event management”, the BJP-led government should apologise to the farmers and immediately withdraw the three laws.

Source: The Hindu December 25, 2020 15:06 UTC