Farmers Movement Archive

Akhilesh’s politics is about self goals, not people: BJP

Lucknow: Asking what the Samajwadi Party did for farmers during the five years that it was in power, government spokesperson and MSME minister Sidharth Nath Singh hit out at former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday, accusing it of not putting the welfare of farmers before his political ambitions. With the Opposition coming down on the government after Prime Minister Narendra Modi withdrew the three farm laws on Friday, Singh said that Yadav’s politics was only about himself and not about the common man. “First, he said that we should talk to farmers. When some farmers could not understand our point of view, the PM took a sympathetic view of the situation and decided to repeal the three laws but instead of appreciating that, Akhilesh is making useless comments on it,” he said. The minister asked why, if Yadav claimed to be a genuine well-wisher of farmers, was it that as soon as the Yogi government came to power, then loans of Rs 36,000 crore were waived for 86 lakh farmers? Why was it that cane farmers had to be paid dues pending since the SP government, that purchase of wheat, paddy and sugarcane was low during the SP regime and why sugarmills were shut down, he asked. “Akhilesh has no moral right to raise questions about the Yogi government which had cleared record dues of Rs 1.46 lakh crore to sugarcane farmers. The welfare of farmers is a priority for the double engine government of the Centre and the state. With schemes like Per Drop More Crop, Har Khet Pani, implementation of the Swaminathan Commission report for MSP, adding more crops to the ambit of MSP etc, our government has shown resolve to improve the condition of farmers,” he said.

The Times of India

2021-11-20

Lucknow