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Farmers will make BJP pay for insulting them in next elections: Akhilesh yadav

AGRA: “BJP government has tried to rob farmers of their dignity by calling them ‘dalal’ (middlemen), anti-nationals and terrorists and they will give a befitting reply to this insult by uprooting the party in power in the upcoming elections,” said Akhilesh Yadav, Samajwadi Party national president. The former chief minister of UP was addressing a sizable gathering of farmers, including those from neighbouring districts of Agra and Aligarh, at a kisan mahapanchayat in Kasganj’s Bara Pathar Ground on Saturday afternoon. While national president of Mahan Dal Keshav Dev Maurya was present on the dais, no top farmer leader was seen. Akhilesh said his party would fight against the central government’s pro-corporate agenda in the form of the three farm laws. He alleged the central government was misleading farmers on minimum support price. “BJP is trying to sell the nation to multinational companies by privatization of railways and closing down various departments and banks. Soon, we will be slaves,” the SP leader said. Apparently with an eye on state assembly elections due next year, Akhilesh went on to add that BJP government was making it difficult for Dalits and backward caste people to get jobs and slowly edging out small businessmen. It had no agenda for development and was bent on creating communal disharmony, he added. The Samajwadi Party, he stressed, would not forge an alliance with any national political party for the assembly election but was open to alliances with regional parties. Maurya said his Mahan Dal would extend full support to the SP in the 2022 assembly elections and aid Akhilesh’s return as CM.

The Times of India

2021-03-14

Agra