Kharge calls BJP 'biggest enemy' of farmers, demands 'maha parivartan'

Ahead of the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections 2024 Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday claimed that the BJP is the biggest enemy of Maharashtras farmers and asserted that the state has decided that farmers will benefit only by removing the double engine government from powerIn a post in Hindi on X Kharge slammed the BJP over farmer suicides in Maharashtra and said the promise of making the state droughtfree is a jumla rhetoricBJP is the biggest enemy of Maharashtras farmers 20000 farmers committed suicide Huge cut in funding in farming Promise of Rs 20000 crore water grid turned out to be false Promise of making Maharashtra droughtfree is a Jumla he said Kharge also attacked the BJP over its refusal to give compensation to the farmers while insurance companies are being showered with Rs 8000 croreHe hit out at the BJP over the export ban and high export duty burden on onion and soybean farmers and the huge drop in cotton and sugarcane production putting farmers in distressKharge claimed that the states milk cooperatives in crisis and the government itself has admitted itMaharashtra has decided that farmers will benefit only by removing BJPs double engine government from power Maharashtra demands MahaParivartan the Congress president saidThe ruling Mahayuti alliance comprises Eknath Shindes Shiv Sena BJP and Ajit Pawarled NCP The opposition MVA comprises the Congress the Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray and the Sharad Pawarled NCP SPThe Election Commission last Tuesday announced that Maharashtra will vote in one phase on November 20 to elect its 288member AssemblyThe counting of votes for the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024 will be held on November 23 a day before the current assembly completes its termDespicable act of targeted violence wont deter India in building infra projects in JK CongressThe Congress on Monday condemned the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmirs Ganderbal and said this inhumane and despicable act of targeted violence will not deter India in building key infrastructure projects in Jammu and KashmirA doctor and six labourers were killed when terrorists struck a tunnelconstruction site on the SrinagarLeh national highway in Jammu and Kashmirs Ganderbal district on Sunday officials said reported PTIThe unidentified terrorists carried out the attack when the labourers and other staff working on the tunnel project at Gund in Ganderbal had returned to their camp late in the evening the officials said reported PTIIn a post on X Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said We strongly condemn the cowardly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmirs Ganderbal where several construction workers and a doctor have been killedThis inhumane and despicable act of targeted violence shall not deter India in building key infrastructure projects in Jammu and Kashmir As a nation we are together in our fight against terrorism Kharge saidOur heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims We wish the injured a speedy recovery he addedWith inputs from PTI