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If BJP loses WB, UP polls, it won’t implement farm laws: Akhilesh

MEERUT: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said the farm laws will never get implemented if BJP gets defeated in West Bengal and UP assembly polls. “If the BJP loses in Bengal and UP in the coming days, the party (BJP) will never be able to implement these three farms laws,” he said. While addressing a huge gathering at a college in Mawana area, he attacked the critics of the farmers’ protest. The government has been calling farmers “terrorists, China-Pakistan sympatisers and anti-social”. “People who have been trying to defame the agitation are the most anti-social and anti-national,” he said. He was in Meerut on Tuesday to unveil a statue of Dhan Singh Gurjar, an Indian kotwal who is believed to have led the initial actions against the East India Company during the 1857 revolt. Drawing parallel between pre-Independence era and the present time, he said that companies close to people in power will enslave farmers and we will once again slip into slavery. “If the current situation prevails any longer, our country will once again slip into slavery. People who understand history would know that the East India Company came to our country and enslaved us. A law was passed in Britain and a trading company became the government. We suffered economically, socially and politically,” former CM Akhilesh Yadav said. “If we don't fight against the farm laws and they get implemented, farmers will become slaves to multinational companies the same way as we were enslaved by the East India Company. These laws are meant to strip the farmers off their lands and destroy them,” he said.

The Times of India

2021-03-24

Meerut