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Prime Minister Kisan Samman is an apaman for farmers: Yogendra Yadav

Rs 6,000 per family per year amounts to an income support of Rs 500 per family a month. This is less than old age pension prevailing in at least more than half the states

Yogendra Yadav National President, Swaraj India
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Yogendra Yadav National President, Swaraj India

Yogendra Yadav
The Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi, far from being a samman, is an apaman for farmers. Frankly, it would have been all right if the government had made no declaration at all. After all, this was an interim Budget. I would have been happy if the government had simply supplied answers to some of the following questions:
 
How much has the farmers’ income increased in the first three years of the supposedly six-year mission to double the farmers income? Why has the government not declared the data on farmer suicides? How much procurement was done on the minimum support

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