Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) has claimed that hundreds of thousands of growers from across the country will be participating in annual meeting of Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan (JI) scheduled to be held at Lahore in December 2014. KBP Secretary General Malik Muhammad Ramzan Rohari has already launched an emergent visit of the Punjab province to motivate the growers for participation in the forthcoming meeting in a large number.
He undertook visit of Narowal, Hafizabad, Kasur, Okara, Sahiwal and Multan and met local leadership of the Board and addressed the meetings of the growers. Malik Ramzan strongly criticised the past governments said that they broke backbone of the national economy by ignoring agriculture. He said that prices of agricultural inputs including oil, electricity and fertiliser had climbed up manifold.
He said that there was a glut of commodities in the markets while prices of cotton, maize, potatoes and rice had witnessed a downward trend. He alleged that the growers were also perturbed over faulty policies of the present government and demands of the farmers could not be met unless an organized struggle is not launched. He also claimed that JI Chief Siraj-ul-Haq had emerged as a popular leader in the recent past and now public was looking towards him for solution to their hardships.
KBP Secretary General said that hundreds of thousands of growers would attend the December 21, 22 and 23, 2014 'Ijtemaa' of JI and submit a memorandum to Siraj-ul-Haq highlighting their problems and suggesting their solutions. Ramzan Rohari said that his tour and visit of other KBP leader of the country is aimed at uniting and motivating the growers and hoped that JI coming meeting would also evolve a future strategy to pace up growers struggle for resolving problems.
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