New Delhi/Chandigarh, March 13
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Member of Parliament Malvinder Singh Kang on Thursday strongly raised the issue of agriculture and irrigation in Punjab while speaking on the supplementary demands for grants in the Lok Sabha, urging the central government to provide a special package and additional grants to support crop diversification in the state.
Kang highlighted Punjab’s historic contribution to the country’s food security and said that during the time when India faced food scarcity, Jawaharlal Nehru and renowned agricultural scientist M. S. Swaminathan led the Green Revolution in India, with Punjab playing the most significant role in ensuring food availability for the entire nation.
He said that while the Green Revolution helped India achieve food security and today the country has surplus food grains, the burden of this transformation has been borne heavily by Punjab.