Farmers Movement Archive

RLD chief flays BJP for poor track record on ‘real’ issues

Addressing a massive joint rally of the Rashtriya Lok Dal and the Samajwadi Party in Iglas town in Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh, on the birth anniversary of Chaudhary Charan Singh, RLD chief Jayant Singh chose not to respond to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Hindutva agenda and instead focused on the poor financial state of U.P., unemployment, farmers’ plight and law and order. Without taking names, he referred to his early morning meeting with Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait at Kisan Ghat, the memorial of Chaudhary Charan Singh in Delhi, and said those who stood for farmers would work together to uproot the anti-farmer powers. “Akhileshji and I have joined hands to rejig the equation of Chaudhary Charan Singh. In some places he will lead the alliance, in others, I will take charge,” he said in the Jat-dominated region, perhaps to bury doubts over possible fissures in the alliance. Claiming that the BJP has cheated the farmers, Mr. Singh said Home Minister Amit Shah had in 2017 promised to establish a fund for farmers in the name of Chaudhary Charan Singh. “Where is that programme? The Prime Minister promised to double farmers’ income in seven years. In seven days, we will enter 2022 but the farmers’ income has not been doubled.” He reiterated it was the unity of the farmers that made the PM, who didn’t reconsider demonetisation, to repeal the farm laws.

The Hindu

2021-12-24

Ghaziabad