Patna, Nov. 5 -- RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday announced that farmers would be given Rs.300 per quintal of paddy and Rs.400 for wheat as a bonus over MSP, if the INDIA bloc comes to power in Bihar. Addressing a press conference here, Yadav, the chief ministerial candidate of the opposition bloc, also said heads of all Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) and Primary Marketing Cooperative Societies (Vyapar Mandals) will also be given the "status of people's representatives" in the state, if the opposition alliance wrests power. Besides, farmers in Bihar will be provided free electricity for irrigation, if the INDIA bloc wrests power in the state, he said., The announcements come two days ahead of the first phase of voting in the state on November 6. "All farmers will be given Rs.300 per quintal of paddy and Rs.400 for wheat as a bonus over the minimum support price (MSP), if the INDIA bloc comes to power in the state," Yadav said. We have already promised that we will transfer Rs.2,500 each into the bank accounts of women every month under the 'Mai-Bahan' scheme. Now we have decided that Rs.30,000 will be transferred in advance (of the entire year) to the accounts of all women in the state under the 'Mai-Bahan scheme' on the occasion of 'Makkar Sankranti' on January 14 next year."...