Chandigarh, April 30: Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal has thanked the senior political leaders of the State for expressing full solidarity with the Haryana Government in all its ongoing and future steps to fight the Corona virus in a 2-hour long video conference held under his Chairmanship earlier today in which former Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Deputy Chief Minister Mr Dushyant Chautala, Health Minister Mr Anil Vij and MLA Mr Abhay Singh Chautala participated.

It was informed in the meeting that the procurement of wheat and mustard was in full swing. About 30 lakh metric tonnes wheat and over 2.90 lakh metric tonnes mustard has been procured till yesterday. Payment of about Rs 591 crores for mustard has already been remitted in the accounts of 52,645 farmers. Apart from this, payment of Rs 700 crores for wheat is being released today and shall reach the account of farmers in the next 3-4 days.

There was complete support for the recent decision of putting strictest curbs on daily travel across borders of Jhajjar, Sonipat, Gurugram and Faridabad. It was also decided to refer the inquiry of suicide case of an inspector of the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Kurukshetra to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that the Government should feel free to take as much loan as it wanted to meet the fiscal crunch.

Mr Dushyant Chautala urged everyone to inspire the big farmers to delay bringing of wheat in mandis to ease the anxieties of small farmers even as he assured 100 per cent procurement by May 15, 2020.

Health Minister Mr Anil Vij expressed hope that with the curbs on inter-state movement, Haryana would soon become Corona free.

Among those present in the meeting included Chief Secretary Mrs Keshni Anand Arora, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr Rajesh Khullar, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr V.Umashankar, Additional Chief Secretary Revenue Mr Dhanpat Singh, Additional Chief Secretary Home Mr Vijai Vardhan, Additional Chief Secretary Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Mr Sanjeev Kaushal, Additional Chief Secretary Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Mr P.K Das, Additional Chief Secretary Health Mr Rajeev Arora, Additional Chief Secretary Finance Mr T.V.S.N. Prasad, Additional Chief Secretary Medical Education and Research Mr Alok Nigam and other senior officers of the State Government.