Red-shirt leader sends essays of farmers' children to PM
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A Pheu Thai Party politician Friday submitted to the prime minister five select essays by school children whose families took part in the previous government’s rice-pledging scheme.
The essays, on the subject “My Family in the Days When There Is No Rice Pledging Scheme”, tell about the problems farmers have experienced since the project was scrapped, said Nuttawut Saikuar, who served as deputy agriculture minister and deputy commerce minister in the previous administration led by Yingluck Shinawatra.
The rice-pledging scheme is estimated to cost more than Bt500 billion in state budget, and the National Anti-Corruption Commission has taken legal action against Yingluck and other relevant Cabinet members in connection with alleged irregularities.
Nuttawut, who organised the essay writing contest, said he read all the entries and met some of the farmer families. “I found that most farmers benefited from this project and they still miss the project,” he said.
