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| Congress will provide MSP, crop insurance to farmers, one lakh jobs to youth: Bharat Priye | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 19: National General Secretary of Kisan Congress Deepak Sharma and President of Jammu and Kashmir Kisan Congress Bharat Priye addressed the press conference at PCC headquarters. Earlier, hundreds of farmers were present in the party office to welcome Bharat Priye and welcomed their leader by wearing flower garlands. While talking to journalists, Deepak Sharma said that today the farmers of the country are crying tears of blood due to the wrong policies of the government. Farmers' loans are not being waived off, but the Modi government has waived off Rs 16 lakh crore of loans of big industrial houses. Congress will provide Rs 36,000 annually to the woman head of the household, unemployment allowance to the youth and one lakh jobs. Bharat Priye said that the farmers of Jammu and Kashmir are currently going through a period of extreme despair. The promises made by Congress in its manifesto to the farmers will be applicable in Jammu and Kashmir. With this he will start a farmer helpline to know whose problems they are facing. Landless, tenant farming and land owning farmer families will be given additional financial assistance of Rs 4,000 every year. Will arrange for 99 years lease to landless farmers cultivating state land. The minimum price for apple crop will be fixed at Rs 72 per kg. 100% crop insurance will be given for all crops against natural calamities.
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