"The Centre has failed to provide adequate relief for drought-hit farmers. It should immediately release interim instalment of relief to states without any prejudice," BJP Kisan Morcha president O P Dhankar told reporters here.
Threatening to launch a nation-wide stir against hike in prices of fertilisers and to seek immediate relief for such farmers, he said interest on agriculture loan should be abolished and loan repayment be stopped till the next crop in view of monsoon failure in many parts.
The government should also immediately declare drought relief of Rs 10,000 per acre and rollback the increase in the prices of fertilisers, Dhankar said, adding that farmers from across the country would stage a demonstration in Delhi on August 20.
BJP President Nitin Gadkari and senior leader Rajnath Singh would sit on dharna in support of the farmers, he claimed. (More)