Former chief parliamentary secretary Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of estranged former Punjab cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for loan waiver to farmers with less than five acre land holding.
Navjot Kaur Sidhu
In a letter
written to Modi, a copy of which was released to media on Wednesday, she said
that rising cost, dip in income and increased incidences of indebtedness among
small and marginal farmers manifested in spate of suicides over the year. “I
believe it is the responsibility of the Union government to waive farm loans,”
she wrote.
Sources here
feel the letter was Kaur’s attempt to break ice with the BJP top leadership and
mend ties. She further wrote that small farmers who had less than five acres of
land should also be given free power or subsidised power to give them more
access to the irrigation facilities.
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