Ravi Dhaliwal
Gurdaspur, December 30
Last week, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi transferred the first tranche of funds under the PM-Kisan Yojana directly to farmers’ accounts, little did he know that these very funds would be ploughed back to sustain the protests being held on the outskirts of New Delhi.
On December 24, Rs 2000 each was directly credited to the accounts of 9 crore farmers. This was the first part of the Rs 6,000 annual package to be given to farmers under the Union Government’s mega-outreach plan.
Don’t help, repeal laws
Earlier, whenever villagers would receive the PM-Kisan scheme grant, they would feel happy. Now they are livid. They do not need this compassion. All they need is repeal of the farm laws. Sehaj Pal Singh Randhawa, law student