Thursday, August 13, 2020

Navjot Kaur Writes To PM For Loan Waiver To Farmers

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.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/navjot-kaur-writes-to-pm-for-farm-loan-waiver/articleshow/77513412.cms

Dr.Gurdeep Kaur
Associate Professor
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College
University of Delhi

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