Chandigarh: The Centre's claims of doubling farmers' income are 'hollow' because returns from farming are already in negative, the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) said while dubbing the Union Budget as 'anti-farmer'.

"The Centre talks about doubling farmer's income by 2022. This statement is a total fraud because farmers are already in distress in the wake of negative returns then how can government double their income," BKU (Ugrahan) General Secretary Sukhdev Singh said today.