Bikram Singh Majithia comes in support of cane farmers

  • | Monday | 23rd August, 2021

Tribune News ServiceAmritsar August 22Former minister Bikram Singh Majithia today demanded the sugarcane state assured price (SAP) be increased to Rs 380 per quintal all pending dues of cane growers be released and also asked Punjab Congress president Navjot Sidhu to ensure its implementation. The SAD leader who had come here to pay his obeisance at the Gurdwara Baba Bakala Sahib on the occasion of Rakhar Punia. The SAD leader said the Rs 15 per quintal rise in cane SAP was not acceptable to farmers. “We assure cane growers that in case the government does not increase the SAP on sugarcane to Rs 380 per quintal we will do so once the SAD-BSP alliance government is formed in the state”. Other leaders present on the occasion included Guljar Singh Ranike Lakhbir Singh Lodhinangal Virsa Singh Valtoha Harmeet Singh Sandhu Vir Singh Lopoke Manjit Manna Baljit Jalalusma Amarpal Ajnala Talbir Gill and Gurpartap Tikka.

Tribune News Service Amritsar August 22 Former minister Bikram Singh Majithia today demanded the sugarcane state assured price (SAP) be increased to Rs 380 per quintal all pending dues of cane growers be released and also asked Punjab Congress president Navjot Sidhu to ensure its implementation. The SAD leader who had come here to pay his obeisance at the Gurdwara Baba Bakala Sahib on the occasion of Rakhar Punia. The SAD leader said the Rs 15 per quintal rise in cane SAP was not acceptable to farmers. “We assure cane growers that in case the government does not increase the SAP on sugarcane to Rs 380 per quintal we will do so once the SAD-BSP alliance government is formed in the state”. Other leaders present on the occasion included Guljar Singh Ranike Lakhbir Singh Lodhinangal Virsa Singh Valtoha Harmeet Singh Sandhu Vir Singh Lopoke Manjit Manna Baljit Jalalusma Amarpal Ajnala Talbir Gill and Gurpartap Tikka.

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