Bilaspur: Suresh Chandel, three-time MP from the Hamirpur constituency and a former BJP state president, who is now national vice-president of the BJP National Kisan Morcha, has pointed towards the deteriorating condition of peasantry in the country. He has demanded that the Central Government must immediately come out with a comprehensive national farming policy for the development of farming and profitable returns for farm produce. Talking to mediapersons and giving figures to substantiate his statement, Chandel said it was on the basis of progress and development in farming that a country like China was going ahead and challenging even the best of economies of the world today and India would be wiser to learn from this neighbour. Chandel said: “Ours is a vast country with varied climates and the vagaries of weather at the present time has made farming uncertain and most of the time, unremunerative”. He said it was during the tenure of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee that some scientists and technical experts had proposed the linking of rivers of the country so that this challenge of a strange weather could be successfully met and farming was made a successful and remunerative profession. He lamented that despite the directions of the Supreme Court to ensure funds for the implementation of this river linking project, the government was just sleeping over it and raising the bogey of shortage of funds. He said the National Kisan Morcha would organise a national-level demonstration and a dharna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, on August 21 in support of their demands, which would be addressed by national BJP president Nitin Gadkari and a former party national president Rajnath Singh among other top leaders.