Two blind brothers in Punjab have made a song, highlighting the plight of farmers who have been protesting against the wheat policy in the province.
Hafiz Sajid and Hafiz Abid are the two brothers. A video of the two brothers singing a song in Punjabi has gone viral on social media.
Farmers across Punjab have been protesting against what they call the government’s “plagued” wheat procurement policy.
Punjab contributes more than 75% of the total wheat harvest, according to media reports and this year the market crashed and growers are forced to sell the staple food crop much below the support price set by the government.
They claim that the government procured wheat despite having surplus production in the country.
The farmers won’t grow wheat next year if the government does not buy the crop from them and provide any relief, Kissan Ittehad Chairman Khalid Hussain Bath said earlier this month.
“The government will never be able to bear the loss,” he said in an interview with Dus with Imran Khan which was aired on Aaj News on May 05.
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Bath warned that the government would not be able to afford such a crisis as the country does not have enough dollars to procure wheat for the people. He added that no one knows what would be the rate in future.
He claimed that the imported wheat was getting in the storage house and the government sold that to the buyers. “They did not allow checking the wheat.”
It merits here to mention that a federal government’s committee was investigating the matter.
