Thread by @thesuniljain

The @capt_amarinder @RahulGandhi farmer agitation is about politics,not farmer rights!
Punjab is HUGELY pampered--almost all wheat/rice brought to market is procured at MSP versus 10-20% for UP and even less for others.Yet, state agri GDP growth collapsing financialexpress.com/opinion/this-i…

.@narendramodi be fair to ALL states, DIVIDE annual FCI-spend equally
Why should Punjab get so much FCI money when UP or other states produce more?
This is not a farmers' agitation, it is a Punjab agitation, critical to @INCIndia survival
@capt_amarinder can be next Cong chief✋

.@capt_amarinder @INCIndia @RahulGandhi DELIBERATELY distorted @narendramodi farm laws to suggest MSP being abolished
If any violence takes place,the CM is to blame
Even by the standards of politicians, this is a new low
BTW, MSP is KILLING Punjab, look at water table, salinity

.@narendramodi be fair to ALL states, DIVIDE annual FCI-spend equally
Why should Punjab get so much FCI money when UP or other states produce more?
This is not a farmers' agitation, it is a Punjab agitation, critical to @INCIndia survival
@capt_amarinder can be next Cong chief✋

Important to ensure @AmitShah @narendramodi that there is no teargas, lathicharge etc since this will make the agitators heroes
Let them block the roads, maybe the SC will then come out with strictures on them and, as in Shaheen Bagh, public sympathy will move away from them

Great interview on the Punjab farmer agitation by @agulati115 to @sardesairajdeep
Demolishes all arguments including the specious one that Punjab farmers are 'poor'
Ideally, the @narendramodi government needs to make such arguments

Do read some pieces on the hypocrisy of those opposing the farm bills of @narendramodi

bit.ly/2JmoCDG
bit.ly/39eOYlQ
bit.ly/3q183xX

This one chart by @1Prabhudatta #BanikinkarPattanayak explains so well just how much Punjab is pampered

Long before @narendramodi farm laws,when--as NOW--MSP was in all its glory,Punjab's farmers were losing out as they stuck to crops where price rise was the least
Restoring Punjab farmer glory is the issue @capt_amarinder @RahulGandhi, not sticking to MSP
financialexpress.com/opinion/this-i…

At Rs 120,000 per Punjab household @capt_amarinder the annual SUBSIDY for electricity and fertilizer is GREATER than the average INCOME of all farmer households across India!!!! #PamperingPunjab
@AmitShah @narendramodi

FCI had Rs 3.2 lakh crore of borrowing from the NSSF in March, primarily to fund the extra -- way beyond its needs -- procurement from Punjab & Haryana
Need to add in these costs as well -- they are subsidies funded by taxpayers. Once you do that, Punjab subsidies⬆️ dramatically

Thanks to FCI,Punjab's farm subsidy is higher than annual income for farmers in rest of country! Those saying farmers will get hit if MSP stopped don't realize 90% of all crops are sold without MSP even today. FACT-CHECK: MSP is not being abolished anyway

financialexpress.com/opinion/punjab…

Punjab agitation has done a good thing, it has exposed just how pampered the state is
The question is whether the stong-arm tactics of Punjab will defeat @narendramodi
If it does, it will prove blackmail works