<p class="title">Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to announce the implementation of Swaminathan Commission report.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Narendramodi ji, good to know that youll be addressing Punjab farmers today. Please use the opportunity to announce loan waiver & full implementation of Swaminathan report. Our distressed farmers will be braving the heat to hear something +ve from you. Pls dont let them down," he tweeted shortly before Modi was to address a rally in Malout today.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal had asked the chief minister not to "play politics" over the "historic" increase in minimum support price (MSP) of paddy and other crops.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Senior AAP leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira, who is also Leader of the Opposition in Punjab, however, asked the Badals to seek a debt waiver package before thanking the prime minister over the MSP hike.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"By hosting farmers rally of Prime Minister @narendramodi in Malout, the SAD-BJP is rubbing salt on wounds of Punjab, which is reeling under farmer suicides and drug menace. @AAPPunjab would like to ask...if there is anything to celebrate in Punjab?" another senior AAP leader from Punjab, Kanwar Sandhu tweeted about Modi's rally.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Instead of wasting money on farmer rally in Malout, @parkashsingh and @sukhbirbadal should have donated this money to families of farmers who have committed suicides in the last 10 years," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile, the prime minister launched a scathing attack on the Congress, alleging that it had betrayed the peasantry and used them as vote bank to further the interests of "one particular family".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Addressing the rally at Malout, he said despite toiling hard, farmers could not think of a comfortable life and that they had to live a life of despair and despondency for decades because of the policies of the Congress-led governments.</p>
<p class="title">Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to announce the implementation of Swaminathan Commission report.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Narendramodi ji, good to know that youll be addressing Punjab farmers today. Please use the opportunity to announce loan waiver & full implementation of Swaminathan report. Our distressed farmers will be braving the heat to hear something +ve from you. Pls dont let them down," he tweeted shortly before Modi was to address a rally in Malout today.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal had asked the chief minister not to "play politics" over the "historic" increase in minimum support price (MSP) of paddy and other crops.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Senior AAP leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira, who is also Leader of the Opposition in Punjab, however, asked the Badals to seek a debt waiver package before thanking the prime minister over the MSP hike.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"By hosting farmers rally of Prime Minister @narendramodi in Malout, the SAD-BJP is rubbing salt on wounds of Punjab, which is reeling under farmer suicides and drug menace. @AAPPunjab would like to ask...if there is anything to celebrate in Punjab?" another senior AAP leader from Punjab, Kanwar Sandhu tweeted about Modi's rally.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Instead of wasting money on farmer rally in Malout, @parkashsingh and @sukhbirbadal should have donated this money to families of farmers who have committed suicides in the last 10 years," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile, the prime minister launched a scathing attack on the Congress, alleging that it had betrayed the peasantry and used them as vote bank to further the interests of "one particular family".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Addressing the rally at Malout, he said despite toiling hard, farmers could not think of a comfortable life and that they had to live a life of despair and despondency for decades because of the policies of the Congress-led governments.</p>