IIOJK Congress plans agitation against India-US trade deal
Jammu: The Congress chapter in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) has planned an agitation against India-US trade deal, calling It anti-farmer and anti-fruit grower.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the IIOJK Congress chapter held a detailed meeting in Jammu to chalk out an action plan to oppose the India-US interim trade deal, terming it “anti-farmer”
The meeting, chaired by IIOJK chapter president Tariq Hameed Karra, was attended by senior party leaders from all 20 districts of the territory, and general secretary and Congress Legislature Party leader G A Mir, besides MLAs, former ministers and legislators.
Addressing the meeting, Tariq Hameed Karra said the deal would “destroy farmers and fruit growers” and adversely impact allied sectors such as poultry and dairy in the territory.
He said, “The US has imposed this deal on India. For the first time, the interests of farmers have been bartered away. Farmers and fruit growers in Jammu and Kashmir will be hit the hardest.”
“This deal is anti-people and against the interests of the nation. The prime minister has sold the interests of farmers under external pressure,” he said.
Karra announced that the party would launch a vigorous mass campaign against the deal and organise a series of farmers’ and fruit growers’ conventions across occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
“We have invited Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi to attend a fruit growers’ meet in Kashmir and a farmers’ sammelan in Jammu next month,” he said, adding that district-level programmes would begin from March 1.
Congress General Secretary G A Mir stressed the need to create awareness among farmers and common people about the implications of the deal.
“For the first time, a compromised prime minister has sold out the interests of farmers. Our leadership is determined to protect farmers, especially in occupied Jammu and Kashmir,” Mir said.
Congress working president Raman Bhalla said that the party cadres would reach out to farmers to explain the “dangerous consequences” of the deal.
