Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will submit memorandum to Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh demanding, among other things, 100 percent crop compensation to the state farmers over the huge losses due natural calamities.

 “The huge loss suffered by the farmers due untimely rain, hailstorm and velocity winds is immeasurable. It has wreaked havoc on them, leaving their wheat crop worth lakhs flattened over vast areas,” said AAP MLA and party’s state Kisan Wing chief Kultar Singh Sandhwan.

He said that a memorandum would be submitted to the Chief Minister through the DCs to remind those at the helms of affairs in the state that the community had been suffering for years now due to the anti-farmer stance of the State and Central Governments reins of the country more than seventy years.

“The memorandum seeks to demand 100 percent compensation to the farmers for the crop loss in any form – accidental or naturals – so that they did not have to suffer due to government’s apathy. It also seeks to amend the law to make the mode of payment of compensation in case of their damaged crops more farmer-friendly,” he said.

He said that the memorandum would also put across its stand point pressing the dispensation to go for a relook on the hackneyed terms and conditions of the payment of compensation and rehabilitation of farmers and so on.

The memorandum seeks to have in place a 100 percent compensation and a much-needed raise in the existing amount of Rs 5,400 per acre so that the common farmers comes out of the financial crisis, saying that the existing mode and amount were a tantamount to a cruel joke with the distressed farmers.

“The memorandum would also impress upon the government to introduce insurance or compensation for the farmers to ameliorating their lot. It would also demand for the setting up of special fund forum on the pattern of Arvind Kejriwal-led government had done in Delhi,” he added.