
In this image released by @VPIndia via X on May 20, 2025,
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar with JD(S) MP H.D. Devegowda during a meeting.
(@VPIndia via PTI Photo)
- NEW DELHI — Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
on Tuesday made a fresh pitch for giving direct subsidy to farmers, asserting
that indirect subsidy does not achieve "optimal results".
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- Dhankhar also said that he is flagging issues of farmers
because in the economy of the country, in the political stability of the
country, in the social fabric of the country, the farmer has to play a very
significant role.
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- He made these remarks in his meeting with former prime
minister H D Deve Gowda here.
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- The vice president had met Gowda to greet him on his
birthday.
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- Earlier too, Dhankhar had said that any subsidy given to
the farm sector, in any form, must reach farmers directly.
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- According to the vice president secretariat, Dhankhar
told the former prime minister that "Farmer is in your heart, farmer is in
your mind sir. And I am also agitating issues of farmers because in the economy
of the country, in the political stability of the country, in the social fabric
of the country, the farmer has to play a very significant role".
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