Hooda: Haryana farmers can produce 20 inch potatoes
December 05, 2012  17:34
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Congress MPs Rahul Gandhi and Sachin Pilot seem to be using this moment to catch up each other. Milind Deora is with them as well.
Gowda is done with his speech. The House livens up as Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda speaks.

He is Harayana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda's son. Hooda brings up the size of potatoes argument that Sushma Swaraj had made yesterday -- that MNCs like McDonald's force farmers to dump produce since it doesn't match the requisite size. Hooda says Sushma Swaraj's statement that McDonald's procured potatoes from the US was wrong. "Their potatoes are procured from Gujarat. If Gujarat [a BJP-run state] can't produce the requisite size, farmers in Haryana can produce potatoes of any size," he grins. 

He says every single time there is a move to modernise the country -- introduction of laptops, the metro rail, even toothpaste, the opposition is up in arms saying the livelihood of people are at stake. "Yet people haven't lost their jobs because of laptops, jobs have increased, auto rickshaws still ply the roads in cities that have metros, and people still  use neem sticks to clean their teeth. So, what is this argument about?"

Speaker Meira Kumar, who is back in the chair, tells him to wind up. And after some empassioned arguments, Hooda concedes the floor to commerce and industries minister Anand Sharma. 
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