MPs should play proactive role in helping farmers, says Varun

LUCKNOW: Sultanpur MP Varun Gandhi said on Thursday that members of parliament should play a proactive role in providing assistance to farmers of their respective constituencies affected by severe crop loss this year. He himself would be visiting his constituency on April 28 to take a stock of crop loss due to bad weather and extend assistance to affected farmers.
Speaking to TOI, Varun said that he had also spoken to several MPs of his party and convinced them that whatever the state and the Central governments were doing in this period of crisis for the farmers, they, as an individual, should also come out to help the farmers who stood ruined in the recent untimely rains and hailstorm.
He said that he had recently visited his constituency and the adjoining areas and found the condition of the farmers very pathetic after the untimely rains. He said that he has also raised the issue with the Samajwadi Party government and plans to help them at an individual level.
The BJP MP said that improving education among girls in the next five years was his priority, so he would open girls college in the blocks and the assembly constituencies which did not have any such college at present.
On his initiative, Sultanpur has been selected as one of the 50 rape crisis centres (RCC) to be developed all over the country. He explained that under the RCC programme, a rape victim would not be required to visit a police station for lodging her FIR and further assistance from the hospital to courts. She would be taken care of in the RCC for which the Sultanpur MP has got a land allotted. Varun said that he had also plans to open country’s largest old age home in his constituency and was working with the government of India for funds