Waive poor farmers’ loans, says Ambawat

Tribune News Service

Haridwar, June 14

A three-day maha kumbh of the Ambawat faction, led the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) concluded at the Alaknanda ground near Rodibelwala Kumbh here yesterday.

Earlier, the Thakur Bhanu Pratap Singh faction, under the aegis of the BKU, concluded its convention on Friday.

Union national president Chaudhari Rishipal Ambawat, addressing farmers from Uttar Pradesh, said the maha kumbh was a tribute to the late Chaudhari Mahendra Singh Tikait, the undisputed leader of the peasant community.

He urged the Central Government to waive loans of poor farmers who were committing suicides or leaving agriculture. Unless farmers’ woes were addressed, the country could not prosper, he said.

Rishipal demanded the formation of a peasant commission for the welfare and long-term solution to the farmers’ woes. He demanded compensation for forest fire, drought, rain, hailstorm and wild animals.