“No motion has been taken within the subject,” Sukhbir Singh Badal claimed (Report)
Chandigarh:
Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal Tuesday mentioned his birthday party will put up memoranda to deputy commissioners around the state on Would possibly 28 to call for an inquiry into the alleged seed rip-off.
Mr Badal claimed that “spurious” kinds of paddy seed have been offered to farmers at thrice the price of authentic seeds.
In a observation, the SAD leader mentioned senior birthday party leaders together with Individuals of Parliament, ex MPs, legislators, constituency representatives and district presidents would put up the memorandums to deputy commissioners.
It used to be stunning that once the state agriculture division were given an FIR registered in Ludhiana on Would possibly 11 following lawsuits via farmers that they have been being provided with “spurious” seeds, some Congress leaders now swung into motion to offer a “political quilt to the scamsters”, he alleged.
“No motion has been taken within the subject,” Mr Badal claimed, including the police had no longer performed any seizures on godowns in addition to the unit based totally at Gurdaspur which equipped “spurious” paddy seeds.
The federal government is able to let lakhs of farmers undergo simplest for the reason that proprietor of the unit is an in depth affiliate of a cupboard minister, he alleged.
“We will be able to no longer permit this to occur and can pressure the federal government to punish all those that are pushing the hard-working farmers to the jaws of suicide,” he alleged.
The opposition birthday party on Would possibly 23 had claimed {that a} shut affiliate of a cupboard minister used to be allegedly enthusiastic about supplying “spurious” paddy seeds which have been no longer licensed on the market via the Punjab Agricultural College (PAU).
A raid used to be performed at a seed promoting retailer in Ludhiana and greater than 750 quintals of seed packaged as PR-129 and 100 quintals of seed packaged as PR-128 have been seized, the birthday party had claimed.
However it had additionally mentioned that no motion have been taken in opposition to the provider.
(This tale has no longer been edited via NDTV body of workers and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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